Apollo

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Sports

Apollo's $750 Million Pickleball Marker: Why the Full-Stack Trade Is Migrating to Asia

SK Lee — Sports & consumer desk Disclosure: Solomon Grey Capital and LIT Sports Global (referenced below) share common ownership through TGG Group. This note discusses that affiliated platform in the context of a broader sector thesis. Readers should weight the analysis accordingly. Valuation ranges cited for LIT TLP are the

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Research

Apollo's Pickleball Verdict: Why the $225M Check Is a Real-Estate-and-Media Bet, Not a Sports Wager

SK Lee — Sports & consumer desk A few days before the Strait of Hormuz reopened and the oil curve collapsed, Apollo Global Management quietly closed the largest structured check ever written into the business of pickleball. The trade press treated it as a curiosity. The composition of the deal, the