Sixers lead owner Josh Harris's multibillion-dollar investment firm, Apollo Global Management LLC, last week bought control of most of Jenkintown native Nicholas Schorsch's multi-billion-dollar business real estate and brokerage operations.
Apollo paid a premium of just $378 million in cash and Apollo stock, for 60 percent of Scorsch-founded AR Capital, which controls business real estate worth $19 billion. Apollo also agreed to pay $25 milion to buy Schorsch-founded, publicly-traded RCS Capital's wholesale brokerage operation, and to invest $25 million in new preferred shares of RCS.
The brokerage group "is one of the industry's largest networks" for selling "alternative" real estate funds, and "has thte potential to become a growth platform" for new real estate investments, Marc Rowan, who cofounded Apollo with Harris, said in a statement.