RedBird Capital Partners, the American investment firm that has an 11 per cent stake in Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group, has raised almost $2.5bn for its latest fund to invest into sports.
RedBird’s fourth fund has raised $2.3bn of its $2.5bn goal so far, with $750m of that figure having arrived from Abu Dhabi’s International Media Investments (IMI), a private firm controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the owner of Manchester City.
The fund, which is expected to surpass its $2.5bn goal, has raised $1.56bn in capital commitments from other entities, although the extent of the IMI commitment has seen it renamed RedBird-IMI from its former moniker of RedBird IV.