A group led by Todd Boehly, co -owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, should acquire the legendary London football club at the end
It is not yet done, but the sale of the Chelsea club is on track. A group led by Todd Boehly, co -owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, will acquire the club as part of an offer on 4.25 billion pounds (5 billion euros), announced the club Londonian.
“The sale should be finalized at the end of May subject to obtaining all the necessary regulatory authorizations,” the club said in a statement released late Friday, May 6. The boss of Chelsea, the Russian Roman Abramovitch, put the club on sale in March a few days before it was targeted by British sanctions in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia launched on February 24.
At the end of a long auction process involving several groups, it is that of Mr. Boehly and his investor partners who was chosen by the New York Bank Raine Group, which supervises the sale. This group is composed, in addition to Mr. Boehly, of Mark Walter, co -owner with him of Dodgers, Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss and the American investment company Clearlake Capital.
of future investments
“The Chelsea club can confirm that the terms have been accepted for a new group of owners, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjoerg Wyss, is buying the club,” said the press release du Chelsea fc.
“On all of the investment that will be made, 2.5 billion pounds will be assigned to buy the club’s shares and this amount will be filed on a British bank account frozen with the intention of donating it 100 % to charitable actions as validated by Roman Abramovitch, “he continued.
In addition, the new owners have undertaken to invest 1.75 billion additional pounds on behalf of the club, said the press release.