Silver Lake
Private equity firm, owner of Endeavor and WME · San Francisco Bay Area
- Founded
- 1999
- Entered
- 2005
- Placed at
- 2005: founded 1999, before the timeline start; shown from 2005
- Status 2026
- Active
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Embeddedness
- 1 connections
- Confidence
- verified · strongest source primary or company
Method
Silver Lake is a Menlo Park private equity firm that becomes Endeavor's controlling shareholder and on April 2, 2024 announces a take private at 27.50 dollars a share, a 13 billion dollar equity value and 25 billion dollar consolidated enterprise value, with Mubadala, Michael Dell's DFO Management, Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and CPP Investments alongside. The deal closes on March 24, 2025, and the same day the representation businesses, WME, 160over90, IMG Licensing and Pantheon Media Group, are renamed WME Group under Mark Shapiro as president and managing partner with Ari Emanuel as executive chairman. Endeavor's IMG events, PBR and On Location go to TKO for 3.25 billion dollars in a separate deal.
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- acquiredWME (WME Group)Silver Lake takes Endeavor private at 27.50 dollars a share, closing March 24, 2025, and renames the representation businesses WME Group the same day.2025