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VIE DES AFFAIRES MARS 1990 CREATION D'APOLLO
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« Leon Black connait bien Jean François Hénin, tout comme d’ailleurs François Pinault. Le financier américain a travaillé avec le Crédit Lyonnais USA et avec Altus, auprès desquels il a placé pour environ 800 millions de dollars de « junk bonds » achetés par des fonds offshore comme Land Free et Apollo, dans lesquels on retrouve quelques figures de la finance française de l’époque tels Alain Mallart, Euris ou Marceau Investissemnt. Jean François Hénin veut sa part du gateau. Il vend l’idée d’autant plus facilement à Jean Yves Haberer , le Président du Crédit Lyonnais, que ce dernier aimerait bien « booster » les bénéfices de la banque et faire taire ainsi ceux qui critiquent les risques qu’il prend. Jean François Hénin clame ses objectifs dans la presse : il veut 2% du marché américain des « junk bonds » , et vite... » [3] In 1990 Leon Black founded Apollo
Advisors L.P. and Lion Advisors L.P. to manage investment capital
on behalf of institutional investors and focus on corporate restructuring,
leveraged buyouts, and the assumption of minority positions in
growth-oriented companies. Since that time, Apollo and its affiliates have
managed approximately $15 billion in assets. Mr. Black also co-founded
Apollo Real Estate Advisors L.P., which since 1993 has invested in more
than $5 billion worth of real estate-related holdings. From 1977 to 1990
Mr. Black was employed by Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, where he
served as managing director, head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group,
and co-head of the Corporate Finance Department, while Milliken was
President. “Another
popular area for Apollo
has been high-yielding industrial estates around Paris , which it has
bought with local partner, Marc Copeland's Marne et Morin Immobilier” Apollo’s mission stays on
course after Haslemere deal US private equity firm predicts it will have invested $200m in
Europe and Japan by 2003 By
James Whitmore, 9 August 2002 |
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