{"id":1104822,"date":"2022-05-30T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/30\/what-is-the-boehly-bid-and-who-is-part-of-it\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T23:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:44:41","slug":"what-is-the-boehly-bid-and-who-is-part-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/30\/what-is-the-boehly-bid-and-who-is-part-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Boehly bid and who is part of it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Boehly and Clearlake Capital, a California-based private equity firm, will each have equal voting rights in Boehly&#8217;s consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Clearlake, a  with no prior direct ownership in major sports properties, has acquired a majority stake in Chelsea.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/e5d86a08635741f684f5f4e42ab9a901\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs and Robey Warshaw advised the group, and former chancellor\u2014and Chelsea supporter\u2014George Osborne now works as a partner at Robey Warshaw. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/10127e306cde4f9e9c48bf053b6a746e\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/e738ce59a4524ece9df97342632dcf77\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As owners, we have a clear goal: to make the fans proud. Our plan of action is to invest in the club for the long term and build on Chelsea&#8217;s extraordinary history of success, in addition to our commitment to strengthening the youth group and obtaining the top talent. &#8220;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dedde48160014ac4a571272ea4327ec1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally want to thank ministers and officials in the British government, as well as the Premier League, for all their efforts in making this happen,&#8221; Boehly continued. Abramovich, a Russian-Israeli billionaire, put Chelsea up for sale on March 2, a week after Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that California investment firm Clearlake Capital has taken the majority stake, Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Boehly becomes Chelsea&#8217;s controlling owner. According to the new owners&#8217; announcement, Boehly will &#8220;share joint control and equal governance of the club,&#8221; while &#8220;Boehly will serve as chairman of the holding .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OBAMA_NEWS (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBoehly<br \/>\nCalifornia-based<br \/>\nClearlake Capital<br \/>\nGeorge Osborne<br \/>\nGoldman Sachs<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boehly and Clearlake Capital, a California-based private equity firm, will each have equal voting rights in Boehly&#8217;s consortium. Clearlake, a with no prior direct ownership in major sports properties, has acquired a majority stake in Chelsea. Goldman Sachs and Robey Warshaw advised the group, and former chancellor\u2014and Chelsea supporter\u2014George Osborne now works as a partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[545,10934,385],"class_list":["post-1104822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bid","tag-boehly","tag-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}