Silver Lake, PIF, Affinity to acquire Electronic Arts in $55bn take-private deal; Leonard Green, Butterfly, GTCR, Incline look to single-asset CVs

Electronic Arts has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at approximately $55 billion; GPs are turning to single-asset continuation vehicles not just for assets they can’t sell right now but even for "crown jewels."

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