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Jared Kushner is having quite the week. He’s involved in high-profile talks over the war in Gaza and he’s front and centre of the biggest leveraged buyout in history. This week, a consortium including Kushner’s Affinity Partners agreed a $55bn deal to take video games maker Electronic Arts private.

Jared Kushner has found a role in the $55 billion Electronic Arts megadeal. His involvement could ease its passage through Washington.

Durban, 52 years old, was part of a new generation of leaders at Silver Lake who took the helm in 2011. He and Greg Mondre assumed the title of co-CEOs in 2019, with Durban working out of the firm’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and Mondre based in New York.

Mr. Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

The deal, led by Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, is set to make shareholders $210 per individual share in the biggest leveraged buyout on record

Electronic Arts has for years been coveted by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and the billionaire dealmaker Egon Durban. But it was Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner who unlocked its $55bn takeover.

Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner has built a fortune through real estate and politics, and in 2025 his firm is making headlines with billion-dollar deals. Find out more here.