Private equity firm Silver Lake to buy stake in All Blacks
Players had blocked previous attempts for ownership of the All Blacks brand to go into private hands. …
The deal has now been made possible by the backing of the powerful rugby players’ association.”I want to acknowledge that the journey to get here hasn’t been easy at times. There was healthy debate and some adjustments by all parties, but always with the good of the game at the heart of this process,” Stewart Mitchell, chairman of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) said in a statement.
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