PIF’s US$55 Billion Bet on Electronic Arts: Gaming, Power, and Politics

30th September, 2025
Electronic Arts is going private in the largest leveraged buyout on record. The US$55 billion deal, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, pulls one of gaming’s most influential publishers off public markets and puts it in the center of Riyadh’s...
Electronic Arts is going private in the largest leveraged buyout on record. The US$55 billion deal, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, pulls one of gaming’s most influential publishers off public markets and puts it in the center of Riyadh’s...

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