How Adebayo Ogunlesi’s contrarian bet led to $12.5bn BlackRock …
Jan 14, 2024 · Adebayo Ogunlesi, co-founder of Global Infrastructure Partners, credits his wife Amelia for a career switch that led on Friday to a $12.5bn deal and a leadership position at BlackRock, the world ...
How the $12.5bn BlackRock-GIP deal is set to shake up
Jan 12, 2024 · When Fink and GIP founder Adebayo Ogunlesi met for an October dinner at Fasano, an Italian restaurant steps away from Rockefeller Center in New York, the menu included plans for a combination that ...
BlackRock to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5bn
Jan 12, 2024 · In infrastructure, BlackRock will combine its existing $50bn business with GIP under the leadership of Ogunlesi, who will join BlackRock’s global executive committee and board.
Larry Fink’s billionaire factory - Financial Times
Dec 4, 2024 · BlackRock paid $12.5bn in cash and stock to buy GIP, making its founders the asset manager’s second-largest shareholders. Co-founder Adebayo Ogunlesi enjoyed a multibillion-dollar windfall, and ...
BlackRock Elects Bayo Ogunlesi to Board of Directors
Nov 19, 2024 · Bayo Ogunlesi. Adebayo (“Bayo”) Ogunlesi is a Founding Partner and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). He is a Senior Managing Director of BlackRock, a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and is based in New York.
Asset Management: the year that was - Financial Times
Dec 23, 2024 · It followed British Airways’s appointment of BlackRock in 2021 to look after £21.5bn of pension assets, and a £23bn mandate that defence contractor BAE Systems awarded to Goldman Sachs.
BlackRock’s billionaire bonanza - Financial Times
Dec 11, 2024 · The top two GIP executives have already joined BlackRock’s global executive committee and the three HPS founders will follow suit. GIP chair Adebayo Ogunlesi also sits on the BlackRock board of ...
BlackRock’s transformational deal - Financial Times
Jan 15, 2024 · BlackRock has struck a deal to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for more than $12.5bn in cash and stock, a move that will substantially boost its footprint in alternative assets.
Transcript: BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure - Financial Times
Jan 24, 2024 · Ogunlesi had spun out and created his own business. He’d gone from 0 to 100bn in assets, and he’s not obviously dying to have somebody else be his boss. And also his firm is very focused.
BlackRock’s Larry Fink won’t be rushed in the search for his …
Jul 29, 2024 · Raj Rao, the current GIP president, will not officially join BlackRock until the deal closes in September but he is very much a potential next generation leader, unlike Ogunlesi, who is 70.