EA reportedly closes a contract worth $ 50 billion to become private in what can become the largest purchase of all time.
Details about the monumental change for the publisher Madden and Battlefield come from Wall Street Journal report. Sources of the site say that investors are a private company Silver Lake and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF). It is said that Affinity Partners, an investment company led by the son -in -law of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner.
If the alleged contract would be official, the advertisement could be announced on Monday. EA had a market value of about $ 43 billion before publishing the history of the Wall Street Journal. This increased by almost 15% to around $ 48 billion from the time it appeared for the first time.
A contract worth $ 50 billion to remove EA from the Public Stock Exchange would be about $ 18 billion more than Power Company Texas $ 31.8 billion purchasewhich took place in 2007 in the case of an EA agreement, it would probably be the largest redemption of all -time (without adaptation to inflation).
The alleged involvement of PIF in the buyout would cause that Saudi Arabia will strengthen its already deep roots in the gaming industry. Currently, it has 10% shares in EA, in 2022. He became one of the largest shareholders of Nintendo with 5.01% property. Pokémon Go The developer Niantic also announced that he has it He sold his gaming library To the manufacturer of scoply mobile games, which is controlled by Savvy Games and PIF, at the beginning of this year.
Ubisoft faced at ease Announcement of Assassin’s Creed Mirage DLC embedded in Saudi Arabia last month. The content was announced after a report from the French point of sale Les echoswhich provided details of the contract between the publisher and PIF. Ubisoft employees also had aroused concerns about the partnership with the controversial entityAccording to Gamefile.
Meanwhile, Silver Lake has a partial property at the game engine tech company, Unity. If the contract with EA, would see PIF, affinity and Silver Lake as fresh owners when EA becomes private.
The list of recently published publishers’ games contains many EA titles, such as Ea sports fc 26 AND Madden NFL 26and also Skate. Next month, EA Developer Dice released Battlefield 6which was a particularly vital moment for both the series and the publisher.
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