{"id":860619,"date":"2026-08-19T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860619\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:46:13","slug":"nrls-melbourne-storm-sells-majority-stake-to-swedish-private-equity-firm-eqt-which-values-the-team-at-about-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860619\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL\u2019s Melbourne Storm sells majority stake to Swedish private equity firm EQT, which values the team at about $200 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish private equity firm EQT has taken a majority stake in NRL club Melbourne Storm, ending a lengthy capital-raising process run by investment bank Jefferies to upgrade the team\u2019s headquarters and training facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Storm chairman and bookmaker Matthew Tripp on Wednesday confirmed a report in The Australian Financial Review\u2019s Street Talk column that EQT would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/melbourne-storm-land-pe-owner-in-landmark-nrl-deal-20260809-p60mpe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become the club\u2019s newest investor<\/a>, but did not provide details on the size of the investment or the stake.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish private equity firm EQT has taken a majority stake in NRL club Melbourne Storm, ending a lengthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-860619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}