In the final week of September, a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that Electronic Arts (EA) was going private in a massive $50 billion buyout, with the major investors being Silver Lake, a private equity company run by Jared Kushner, and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), among others. A few days later, the news would be confirmed, with EA officially announcing it had agreed to be acquired by this 'Consortium' of investors for $55 billion, and the video game industry has had endless questions ever since. Questions about the $20 billion of debt that EA takes […]

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