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Apollo, BlackRock, other firms say Optimum trying to weaponize US antitrust laws

( March 25, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Apollo Capital, Ares Management, BlackRock Financial, and other firms told a US federal judge that Optimum Communications’ antitrust case is an effort to weaponize the law to give it and its subsidiary leverage to which they are not entitled by contract so they can extract individual concessions on billions of dollars of pre-existing debt. They moved to dismiss, arguing that the amended complaint does not allege that the lending markets were rigged at the point that debt was issued, when competition actually occurred.See attached file. ...

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