{"id":19811,"date":"2025-10-04T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:46:18","slug":"video-gamer-electronic-arts-to-be-bought-in-largest-ever-private-equity-buyout-valued-at-55-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19811","title":{"rendered":"Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like \u201cMadden NFL,\u201d \u201cBattlefield,\u201d and \u201cThe Sims,\u201d is being acquired for $55 billion in what could become the largest private equity-funded buyout in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA\u2019s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is run by President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/electronic-arts-ea-acquired\/?tbref=hp\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/electronic-arts-ea-acquired\/?tbref=hp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like \u201cMadden NFL,\u201d \u201cBattlefield,\u201d and \u201cThe Sims,\u201d is being acquired for $55 billion in what could become the largest private equity-funded buyout in history.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA\u2019s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is run by President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/electronic-arts-ea-acquired\/?tbref=hp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,1264,975],"class_list":["post-19811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-companies","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19812,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}