Electronic Arts Buyout by Saudi PIF and Affinity Partners: A Retrospective on the $50 Billion Deal That Wasn’t
Electronic Arts Buyout by Saudi PIF and Affinity Partners: A Retrospective on the $50 Billion Deal That Wasn’t In what was once anticipated to be the largest leveraged buyout in history, reports from 2023 indicated that Electronic Arts (EA), the gaming powerhouse behind Madden and FIFA, was nearing a monumental $50 billion deal to go private. The proposed acquisition involved a consortium of investors, including the private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Affinity Partners,…