http://www.thewrap.com/wme-img-land-1-1-billion-investment/ Silver Lake said in the letter that the investment will make it possible to buy out minority partners in UFC and to allow some WME-IMG senior management employees and investors to take cash out as well as fund further acquisitions. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Government of Singapore Investment Fund are limited partners of Silver Lake. The latter has previously invested $750 million in WME-IMG in two rounds, once in 2012 and again in 2014.
I believe Dana White sold his stake in the company when the Fertitta's did but the others, including Flash out of UAE and the group that Robert Kraft was involved with, could be affected. I feel like we have yet to see what a new ownership group can do with the UFC. It's been business as usual (or worse) for the last year or so.
