The three partners in the deal are the PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. Silver Lake is a tech-focused investment firm based in New York City and Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 1999, and as of Dec. 31, 2025, had $102 billion in assets under management (AUM), putting it in the top 25 private equity firms by AUM. Affinity Partners is an American investment firm founded in 2021 by Jared Kushner, who is Donald Trump’s son-in-law. It had $5.4 billion in AUM as of 2025. The firm is overwhelmingly financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and has been the subject of controv