Electronic Arts Acquired for $55 Billion

Electronic Arts has recently confirmed that an investor group composed of Silver Lake, Affinity Partners, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) will acquire it for around $55 billion.

Electronic Arts Acquired

Founded in 1982, EA is one of the largest publishers in the gaming industry. The company went public in 1989 with a market capitalization of around $84 million, and it has grown immensely since then. Recent years have not been great for Electronic Arts, though. Earlier this year, EA lost around $6 billion in shareholder value after sharing that titles such as EA Sports FC 25 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard had underperformed.

After Electronic Arts’ deal with the investor’s consortium, the publisher will no longer be a publicly traded company, and stockholders will receive $210 in cash for each share, a 25% premium on the company’s unaffected share price of $168.32 at market close on September 25, 2025. Despite changing hands, EA will continue to have Andrew Wilson as its CEO, and it will remain headquartered in Redwood City, California. According to Wilson, the acquisition is a moment of “powerful recognition” for the remarkable work Electronic Arts has done in building “some of the world’s most iconic IP.” The transaction is expected to close in Q1 FY27, and it will still be subject to the approval of regulators.

The companies acquiring EA are well-known in the financial markets. Silver Lake is an investment fund by a private equity Silicon Valley firm founded in 1999. Affinity Partners is a Miami-based investment fund formed in 2021 by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and it receives considerable funding from the Saudi Arabian government. Lastly, Saudi Arabia’s PIF is a sovereign wealth fund for the Middle Eastern nation, which has made major investments in the video game industry. In 2023, for example, the PIF became Nintendo’s largest investor.

If approved by the US regulators, EA’s deal will be one of the largest ones in video game history. However, the top spot will remain with Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as the tech giant paid $68.7 billion to acquire the major publisher. Most are hoping that the acquisition will positively affect gamers, but it remains to be seen what changes are to be expected from this major shift in one of the largest gaming publishers in the world.

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