Specimen Certificate for Class A Common Shares of Apollo Global Management, LLC
This document is a specimen certificate representing ownership of Class A common shares in Apollo Global Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The certificate confirms the holder's ownership of fully paid, non-assessable shares, which are transferable on the company's books upon proper endorsement. By accepting the certificate, the holder agrees to be bound by the company's operating agreement. The certificate must be countersigned by the transfer agent to be valid.
Exhibit 4.1
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
ORGANIZED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
A
CLASS A COMMON SHARES WITHOUT PAR VALUE
CUSIP 000000 00 0
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
is the registered holder of
FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE CLASS A COMMON SHARES, WITHOUT PAR VALUE, OF APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”) transferable only on the books of the Company by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar.
Witness the facsimile seal of the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.
Dated:
Chief Executive Officer
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
SEAL DELAWARE 2007
Chief Financial Officer
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC
BY:
(New York, NY)
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
THE HOLDER OF CLASS A COMMON SHARES, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE, SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE (A) REQUESTED ADMISSION AS, AND AGREED TO BECOME, A MEMBER OF THE COMPANY, (B) AGREED TO COMPLY WITH, AND BE BOUND BY, THE TERMS OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT (AS AMENDED, SUPPLEMENTED OR RESTATED, THE “OPERATING AGREEMENT”) OF THE COMPANY, (C) GRANTED THE POWERS OF ATTORNEY PROVIDED FOR IN THE OPERATING AGREEMENT AND (D) MADE THE WAIVERS AND GIVEN THE CONSENTS AND APPROVALS CONTAINED IN THE OPERATING AGREEMENT. THE COMPANY WILL FURNISH WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH SHAREHOLDER WHO SO REQUESTS A COPY OF THE OPERATING AGREEMENT
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM – as tenants in common
TEN ENT – as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN – as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT– Custodian (Cust) (Minor) under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (State)
Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
For value received, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)
shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
Attorney to transfer the said shares on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated
Notice: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
Signature(s) Guaranteed:
THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15).
