{"id":31660,"date":"2026-07-31T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/?p=31660"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:36:20","slug":"ea-expects-to-finalize-a-55-billion-sale-to-saudi-arabia-and-private-equity-firms-next-week-having-obtained-all-required-regulatory-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/?p=31660","title":{"rendered":"EA expects to finalize a $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms next week, having obtained all required regulatory approvals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately a week after receiving approval from the European Commission, the $55 billion leveraged buyout that will result in Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners becoming the new proprietors of EA and taking it private is anticipated to finalize next week, the company has stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately a week after receiving approval from the European Commission, the $55 billion leveraged buyout that will result in Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners becoming the new proprietors of EA and taking it private is anticipated to finalize next week, the company has stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}