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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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, …
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 …
BlackRock is betting that governments will blink first on …
Jan 17, 2024 · Larry Fink, chair and chief executive of BlackRock, right, and Adebayo Ogunlesi, chair and chief executive of Global Infrastructure Partners, at a media interview in New York …