Apollo Global Management has hired a former Terra Firma Capital Partners managing director to its European credit team, according to three people familiar with the matter, as it hunts credit opportunities in Europe.

Lorenzo Levi joined the US private equity giant's London office in July as an operating partner, one of the people said. He most recently worked as an operational managing director at Terra Firma, and was on the board of directors of portfolio companies including Odeon and UCI Cinemas, German motorway service area operator Tank & Rast and Irish aircraft leasing company AWAS.