Paris — Private equity firm Silver Lake has agreed to make a $500m equity investment into the owners of English football champions Manchester City, valuing the Premier League club’s owner at $4.8bn.
Silver Lake will buy just over 10% of Abu Dhabi-controlled City Football Group (CFG), which owns Manchester City, the companies said on Wednesday, confirming an earlier report in the Financial Times...
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