Bundesliga: Sixth Street in talks with the DFL to invest in media rights (press)

Sixth Street, an international investment firm with $60bn in assets under management and capital committed, is reportedly in talks with the DFL to buy part of the domestic and international media rights to the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga, according to the British business daily the Financial Times on 06/02/2023.

The DFL resumed talks with private equity firms for the sale of part of these rights at the end of January 2023, according to the US financial news website Bloomberg. The German league had postponed the sale of 20% of such rights to investors until 2023, due to a lack of consensus among the 36 German professional clubs at the end of 2022, according to the news agency Reuters on 05/12/2022.

The DFL is seeking to sell these rights through the creation of a commercial company that would house all of them, as reported by Bloomberg on 22/08/2022. The League has appointed German bank Deutsche Bank to accompany the deal, in conjunction with Japanese financial services company Nomura Holdings, a long-time adviser to the DFL. The commercial company would be valued at €18bn in total…