As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 4, 2021

Registration No. 333-251884

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

Form S-3

Registration Statement No. 333-251884

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ATHENE HOLDING LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

CT Corporation System

28 Liberty Street

New York, New York 10005

(212) 590-9070

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

John Golden

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Second Floor, Washington House

16 Church Street

Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda

(441) 279-8400

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Not Applicable

(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-251884) of Athene Holding Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company (the “Registrant”), originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on January 4, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”).

On January 1, 2022, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 8, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Apollo Global Management, Inc. (“AGM”), Tango Holdings, Inc. (“Tango Holdings”), Blue Merger Sub, Ltd. and Green Merger Sub, Inc., (a) each of AGM and the Registrant became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Tango Holdings, (b) AGM was renamed Apollo Asset Management, Inc. and (c) Tango Holdings was renamed Apollo Global Management, Inc.

As a result of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold under the Registration Statements. The Registration Statement is hereby amended to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly authorized this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Hamilton, Bermuda on January 4, 2022.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act.