Silver Lake kicks in more money as unions bolster balance sheets

Silver Lake kicks in more money as unions bolster balance sheets
Auckland Rugby's coffers are flush. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
Silver Lake has kicked in the second tranche of its $200 million initial investment in New Zealand Rugby’s commercial operation, with the first $100m already filtering its way through to the nation’s unions and clubs. Companies Office filings this week show SL Future, a Silver Lake entity, was issued another 100m shares of NZ Rugby Commercial GP, the general partner entity set up to manage the limited partnership housing the $3.5 billion All Blacks commercial machine, on June 28, completing the second step of plans to raise as...

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