📰 Private equity

Forbes

Logan Paul says not selling Prime at its peak, when private equity would have bought in at $500 million, cost him $100 million.

Private equity

Vetted Sports

A deal worth close to $700 million shows private equity treating fitness brands like sports franchises, with more than 60% of top U.S. gym chains already PE-backed.

Private equity · M&A

Front Office Sports

Private equity took a minority slice of the Seahawks' $9.6B transaction.

Private equity

The Athletic

UCLA parted with AD Martin Jarmond over what the chancellor called an unsustainable deficit, with a $5.6M buyout.

Private equity

Semafor

Senator Chris Murphy told Semafor private equity in youth sports is the next populist issue, likening it to the backlash against AI data centers.

Private equity · Data centres · AI

Front Office Sports

Bill Belichick's second year at UNC opens against the TCU team that beat him 48-14, after a 4-8 season.

Private equity

The Athletic

The rights-market consequences of Sky's buyout of ITV for football-watching in the UK.

Private equity

Deadline

BlackSun launched a sports and media private equity fund with $1B toward a $7B target.

Private equity

Vetted Sports

Apollo Sports Capital is putting $2.6 billion into Yankee Global Enterprises in a debt-and-equity mix, with Al Tylis joining the board.

Private equity

Puck

John Ourand reports private equity and credit now treat team ownership as a hedge against tariffs, wars and a possible AI bubble.

Private equity · Tariffs · AI

Vetted Sports

LIV Golf named a new lead private equity investor to replace Saudi Arabia's PIF, with terms, identity and closing timeline undisclosed.

Private equity

Puck

Lauren Sherman unmasks Michael Reinstein, the financier behind Bally's unraveling.

Private equity

Business Insider

Big Tech is warming to the voluntary buyout, a layoff instrument it resisted for two decades.

Private equity · Labour