Investments by private equity funds in the world of sport are growing. As reported by Il Sole 24 Ore, the funds have in fact invested 15.75 billion in the sports sector so far, compared to a total assets of 1.513 billion: figures in terms of investments up 18%, adds the newspaper, compared to 13.35 billions of 2020.
An important growth, also because the pandemic has put the balance sheets of sports clubs under pressure, thus opening the doors to investments by private equity funds, which have emerged positively from the crisis. The latest operation linked to private equity is that for Atalanta, even if the co-chairman of Bain Capital, Stephen Pagliuca, in this case will personally invest together with other shareholders.
The most important transaction also at a strategic level remains that between CVC and the Spanish La Liga, in a scheme similar to the one for which the same fund was negotiating with the Serie A League: creation of a media company to open the capital to private equity . CVC will thus invest approximately 2.24 billion in the La Liga media company, while together with others it aims to repeat the same operation for the French Ligue 1 as well (together with Oaktree, a Californian fund that has lent 275 million to Suning for Inter Milan). .
The main operations of the funds in the world of sport
- CVC-LaLiga: $ 2.24 billion;
- KKR e Silver Lake-UFC: 2 miliardi;
- Dyal Capital Partners-NBA: 2 miliardi;
- Redbird-Fenway Sports Group: 0,75 mld;
- Bridgepoint-MotoGp: 0,64 mld;
- Gtcr-Vivid Seats: 0,58 mld;
- Blackstone-Yes Network: 0,56 mld;
- Redbird-Yes Network: 0,56 mld;
- CVC-Six Nations: 0.51 billion;
- Silver Lake-City Football Group: 0,5 mld;
- QSI-PSG: 0.47 mld;
- Elliott-Milan: 0,43 mld;
- China Media Capital-City Football Group: 0,4 mld;
- Kkr-PureGym: 0,4 mld;
- Pif-Newcastle: 0,4 mld;
- Abu Dhabi United Group-City Football Group: 0,38 mld;
- Cvc-Volleyball World: 0,3 mld;
- Cvc-Premiership Rugby: 0,25 mld;
- LioneRock Capital-Inter: 0,17 mld;
- Cvc-Pro14: 0.15 billion;
- Silver Lake-All Blacks: 0,13 mld;
- Redbird-OneTeam: 0,13 mld;
- Hig Capital-Sportive: 0,13 mld;
- Silver Lake-Australian Professionale League: 0,10 mld.
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