Who is the new owner of Chelsea, including which prominent characters?

According to the most prestigious sources in the UK today, the Swiss Union will soon be announced as the new owner of Chelsea club. The new owner of the London team is led by billionaire Todd Boehly with a total personal fortune of about $4.7 billion.

It is known that he is a billionaire getting rich from the investment segment with an extremely diversified investment list in many fields. Currently, Boehly’s Eldridge has stakes in insurance, real estate, food, entertainment, film, and technology industries.

In the field of sports, Boehly also owns 20% of the shares of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club, and is also the owner of two other basketball teams, the Los Angeles Sparks and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Notably, among these, the Los Angeles Lakers are being valued as the 3rd most valuable club in the NBA with an estimated value of up to $ 5.14 billion.

Despite being confirmed as the head of the coalition to buy Chelsea, but Boehly only takes the helm at Chelsea. In fact, in terms of controlling shares, Clearlake Capital is really Chelsea’s owner with 66% of the shares.

Clearlake is known as an investment fund founded by Behdad Eghbali in 2007. Their role in the group is to financially support the investment in Chelsea.

Active in venture capital, media, industry and healthcare. Clearlake Capital currently holds assets of about 72 billion USD.

In addition, members of the alliance are Hansjörg Wyss, an 86-year-old Swiss billionaire. He is a person who is highly commended for making his fortune in the field of manufacturing medical equipment.

In addition, he is also mentioned as one of the most philanthropic billionaires in the world. According to the published numbers, he contributed up to 2 billion USD. Wyss’ personal fortune is estimated at $5.2 billion.

The third leading figure in the Club Ownership Alliance is billionaire Jonathan Goldstein, a British real estate developer.

He is the co-founder and CEO of investment firm Cain International, who has $10.8 billion in assets under management.

Goldstein is also mentioned as a longtime business friend of Boehly. However, what people wonder about Goldstein is that he identifies himself as a loyal Tottenham fan.

The last billionaire approved to join the Coalition was 62-year-old American Mark Walter. Mark Walter is best known as the co-founder of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, a large global financial services company.

However, in the union he is known to be business friends with Boehly when they both own the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club. According to Forbes news site, Walter’s current net worth is about 4 billion USD.

In addition to the three billionaires above, the alliance also includes the legendary music promotion, former journalist Barbara Charone. She is an American public relations officer based in the United Kingdom and has contacts for various notorious musical artists, her client list includes Madonna, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Rod Stewart and Christina Aguilera. Her net worth is estimated at around $9 million.

Although not economically strong, her role in the Alliance will be more management-oriented when it is confirmed that she will have a seat on the executive board if the Alliance successfully acquires Chelsea.

The last major figure in the coalition is Daniel Finkelstein, a Member of the House of Commons as a Conservative. In addition, he is a former journalist and editor of The Time.

It is expected that official information about the Chelsea deal will be announced next week, before the British Government’s ban for Chelsea expires.