Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Acquisition & Valuation

Suning Sports is the sports arm of Chinese retail and property conglomerate Suning Holdings Group, headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and incorporated as Jiangsu Suning Sports Industry Co., a joint venture of Suning Holdings, which owned 90% at the end of 2016, and Suning Appliance Group. It built a business spanning sports media, over-the-top streaming, sports retail and youth training. Its digital platform PP Sports bought Chinese broadcast rights to major football competitions, including the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Chinese Super League and, from 2018-19, exclusive television and online rights to the Bundesliga for five seasons, along with AFC competitions and WWE, earning revenue from subscriptions and advertising. It opened its first flagship fan store in Nanjing in 2017, planning 152 stores by 2020, and developed grassroots training programmes. Through its Hong Kong subsidiary Suning Sports International, it sits above Great Horizon, the vehicle through which Suning bought a majority stake in Inter Milan in 2016, and the group also owned Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning. In July 2018 Suning Sports raised a $600 million Series A led by Goldman Sachs and Alibaba, with Evergrande, Yunfeng Capital, SenseTime, CCB International and others, valuing it at about $2.6 billion. Under financial strain, Suning halted operations at its Chinese football clubs, including champions Jiangsu, in February 2021.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield operates as a real estate investment trust. The company develops and owns large, efficient office buildings in prime locations in Paris and La Defense. It also owns offices, hotels and residential assets in Europe and the USA. Its portfolio includes shopping centers, office , and convention & exhibition centers. Its segments include Southern Europe, including France, Spain and Italy; Central Europe, including Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic; Northern Europe, including Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, and The UK; and The United States.

Omega Healthcare Investors Inc is a real estate investment trust that invests in healthcare-related real estate properties located in the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom (U.K.), and Canada. The company's objective is to provide attractive returns to investors while serving as the preferred capital partner to its third-party healthcare operating companies and affiliates, as well as other third-party healthcare operators, allowing them to focus on delivering a high level of care to their resident patients. Omega's investment portfolio mainly consists of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities (ALFs), including care homes in the U.K., independent living facilities, rehabilitation and acute care facilities, and continuing care retirement communities.

Emaar Development PJSC is a property developer and provider of lifestyle-focused real estate, with operations in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Its principal activities are property investment, development and development management, shopping malls and retail, entertainment, hospitality, property management and utility services and investments in providers of financial services. The majority of the company'ss revenue is derived from the sale of residential units. Geographically, the company is currently operating only in the UAE.

Sekisui House Ltd is a Japanese construction company engaged in housing, construction, real estate, and international operations. The company operates through seven segments. The Detached House segment focuses on designing and selling homes. The Rental and Commercial Building segment handles rental housing and commercial properties. The Architecture and Civil Engineering segment undertakes construction and civil engineering projects, and the Rental Housing Management segment is engaged in leasing and management services. The company also operates a Remodeling business for homes and rental units, a Development division covering real estate, condominiums, and urban redevelopment, and an International business that develops and sells housing, land, and apartments overseas.

Toll Brothers is the leading luxury homebuilder in the United States with an average sale price well above that of public competitors. The company operates in over 60 markets across 24 states and caters to move-up, active-adult, and second-homebuyers. Toll Brothers consistently ranks as a top 10 builder in the US based on total home closings. Traditional homebuilding operations represent most of the company’s revenue. Toll Brothers also builds luxury for-sale and for-rent properties in urban centers across the US. Its headquarters are in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

NVR Inc is engaged in the construction and sale of residential properties, including single-family detached homes, townhomes, and condominium buildings, all of which are built on a pre-sold basis. Additionally, the company provides related services through its mortgage banking and title services businesses. Its business segments are Homebuilding and Mortgage Banking. Its geographical segments include the Mid Atlantic, the North East, the Mid East, and the South East regions of America. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Homebuilding Mid Atlantic segment, which includes homebuilding operations that construct and sell single-family detached homes, townhomes and condominiums in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Washington, D.C. regions.

TKO Group Holdings Inc is a sports and sports entertainment company that operates combat sports and sports entertainment companies. It owns and manages valuable sports and entertainment intellectual property. The company distributes content and monetizes its intellectual property through four activities: Media rights, production, and content, Live events and hospitality, Partnerships and marketing and Consumer products licensing, The company has two reportable segments, UFC and WWE. The company generates majority of revenue from the UFC segment. The UFC segment revenue consists of media rights fees associated with the distribution of its programming content, ticket sales, and site fees associated with the business's international live events.

Swire Pacific is a Hong Kong-based conglomerate with interests in property, aviation, beverage, trading, and industrials. The property division, an 82% stake in Swire Properties, contributes more than half of the group's operating profit. The beverage division is one of two Coca-Cola bottlers in mainland China and also a bottler in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The aviation division consists of Haeco, an aircraft engineering company, and a 45% stake in Cathay Pacific. As of end December 2024, John Swire & Sons, the parent company, holds a 60% stake in Swire Pacific but has 68% of the voting rights through a dual-class share structure.

Aldar Properties is a real estate developer, investor and manager headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. Its Aldar Development arm builds and sells homes and master-planned communities in the UAE, including projects at Al Raha Beach, Al Raha Gardens and Yas Island, and develops property abroad through SODIC in Egypt and London Square in the United Kingdom, which it bought in 2023 for £230 million. Aldar Investment holds more than AED 49 billion of assets under management, spanning retail, residential, commercial and logistics property such as Yas Mall and The Galleria, hotels and leisure assets in Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah, and Aldar Education, which runs 27 owned and managed schools with about 36,000 students. The group earns revenue from property sales, rental income, hospitality, school fees and project management services. In 2025 it reported revenue of AED 33.8 billion, net profit of AED 8.8 billion and record group sales of AED 40.6 billion. Aldar was founded on 12 January 2004, listed its shares in 2005, received a $5.2 billion bailout from the Abu Dhabi government in 2011 and merged with Sorouh Real Estate in 2013. Its largest shareholder is the sovereign wealth fund Mubadala.

Singapore-based Keppel is an alternative asset manager and operator with SGD 95 billion of funds under management as of the end of December 2025. The group’s key segments are infrastructure, real estate, and connectivity (including telecommunication services and operation of data centers). Most of its earnings are derived from its infrastructure segment, where it invests and operates in a portfolio of infrastructure assets. The group also has a fund management platform comprising listed and unlisted investment trusts that generates recurring fee income.

Daiwa House Industry Co Ltd is engaged in the business of housing, commercial facilities, and urban development. The company operates through seven segments. The Apartment segment develops, sells, and manages condominiums, while the Business Facilities segment handles logistics, manufacturing, medical, and nursing care facilities. The Commercial Facility segment focuses on the development, construction, and management of retail spaces. The Detached Houses segment contracts and sells individual homes. The Environment Energy segment develops renewable power plants and electricity retail. The Rental Housing segment covers development, operation, and brokerage of rental housing, while Others include the resort hotel business.

Swiss Prime Site AG is a real estate company based in Switzerland. Its segments include: Real Estate, Asset Management, Retail, Corporate and Shared Services. The Real Estate segment consists of the firm's core real estate activities (the purchase, sale, lease, and development of properties) and financing of these activities. Asset Management includes the fund business, asset management, and investment advisory. The Retail segment consists of the operation of department stores, and Corporate and Shared Services include central group functions as well as internal services that are provided centrally. The majority of the revenue is generated from the Real Estate segment.

Rogers Communications is the largest wireless service provider in Canada with more than 11 million subscribers, equating to one-third of the total Canadian market. Rogers' wireless business accounts for more than half of total revenue and has been growing at a higher rate than other segments. The cable segment, which provides about 38% of total revenue after acquiring Shaw, offers home internet, television, and landline phone service to consumers and businesses. Remaining sales come from Rogers' media unit, which owns and operates various television and radio stations and major Toronto sports franchises, including the Blue Jays, Maple Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC, and Argonauts.

Henderson Land Development is a leading property developer in Hong Kong with a focus on urban redevelopment and farmland conversion. The company was founded in 1976, listed in 1981. Henderson Land controls four listed entities directly, including a 69% stake in Henderson Investment, a 41.5% stake in Hong Kong and China Gas, a 33.4% stake in Hong Kong Ferry, and a 50.1% stake in Miramar Hotel & Investment.

LFP Media is the commercial subsidiary of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), based in Paris, which holds and exploits the media and marketing rights of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. It sells domestic and international broadcasting rights, sponsorship and licensing for the two professional divisions and passes the proceeds to the member clubs through the league. After DAZN ended its five-year domestic Ligue 1 rights contract after a single season in 2025, LFP Media launched its own direct-to-consumer streaming channel, Ligue 1+, in August 2025 at EUR 14.99 a month with a 12-month commitment, and the service passed one million subscribers. The company was created in 2022, when CVC Capital Partners' Fund VIII invested EUR 1.5 billion for a 13% stake, valuing its share capital at EUR 11.5 billion, while the LFP kept the remaining 87%. Former M6 chief Nicolas de Tavernost led LFP Media through the Ligue 1+ launch and resigned in February 2026. CVC funded about half of its commitment with debt and in February 2026 cut the value of its EUR 750 million equity contribution to about EUR 200 million, while the French Football Federation has proposed a new club-owned company, with CVC as a shareholder, to take over the running and marketing of the professional competitions.

PGA TOUR Enterprises is a for-profit commercial company created by the PGA TOUR to hold and develop the tour's commercial businesses. It was launched in January 2024 and is controlled by the PGA TOUR, the non-profit membership organisation that runs the main professional men's golf tour in the United States, with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of American sports team owners led by Fenway Sports Group, as a minority investor. The company is responsible for the tour's commercial activities, including media rights, sponsorship, tournament and fan-engagement businesses, and new media and commercial opportunities. It earns revenue mainly from the sale of television and streaming rights and from sponsorship and licensing tied to PGA TOUR events. A player equity program gives nearly 200 PGA TOUR members equity grants in the business. Its 13-member board combines PGA TOUR player directors, PGA TOUR executives and four directors appointed by Strategic Sports Group. The company is based at the PGA TOUR's headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Yankee Global Enterprises is a New York holding company, controlled by the family of George Steinbrenner, that owns the New York Yankees baseball team through the New York Yankees Partnership. It was formed in 1999 as YankeeNets through a combination of the Yankees and the New Jersey Nets, and took its present name in 2004. The company holds a plurality stake in the YES Network, which broadcasts the Yankees, a stake in the stadium hospitality group Legends, and minority stakes in the soccer clubs New York City FC and AC Milan. It also operates Yankee Stadium. Hal Steinbrenner is chairman and chief executive.