Dependable recurring income from digital music rights is attracting major investment from PE funds - Streaming has made song rights one of the most compelling emerging.
How Blue Owlâs $12.5B SPAC Deal Could Shape The Future Of Private Equity
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What happens when you combine just about every major buzzword that has enveloped private equity in recent years in a single $12.5 billion transaction, one that underscores the many ways the industry has evolved and diversified away from its barbarian beginnings in the 1980s?
Blue Owl Capital is about to find out.
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Ex-banker Mark Patricof gets pro athletes to bet on private equity over flashy tech startups.
Three years in, his firm already has a big win with an $800 million exit for Cholula Hot Sauce.
Mark Patricof told Insider how he got an A-list roster that is a money manager s dream.
One of Mark Patricof s favorite parts of introducing professional athletes to the world of private equity is watching finance titans get starstruck when meeting stars. It s fun to see partners at KKR and Silver Lake and Carlyle interacting with Todd Gurley, Patricof said, referring to the star running back. You watch for the first 15 minutes how nervous and shy these PE guys are, and it takes a while to ease into the conversations.
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San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital has agreed to sell a majority stake in industry-focused software solutions provi
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BUDAPEST, May 6 (Reuters) - Hungary s Sziget, which organises some of the largest music festivals in Europe, said on Thursday that it had cancelled this summer s main event in Budapest and would instead make a grand comeback in 2022.
The Sziget Festival routinely draws several hundred thousand visitors to an island in the River Danube in the Hungarian capital, with the Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Post Malone and Macklemore among the star guests at the last festival in August 2019.
The company said the pandemic-related uncertainties over travel, accommodation and also the use of vaccination cards domestically and internationally have forced them to rethink this summer s festival plans.