The Seahawks’ newly approved owners are finalizing their group of investors ahead of the imminent closing of their $9.612 billion deal to purchase the team from the Paul G. Allen estate.
The new ownership group is led by the family of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. NFL team owners voted unanimously last week in Atlanta to ratify the deal. That came after the league’s finance and ownership policy committees previously voted unanimously to recommend approval.
The closing of the deal is expected “very soon,” a source told FOS on Monday. Sources had previously said they expected the deal to close in September. The Seahawks host the Patriots in the NFL’s season-opening game Sept. 9 at Lumen Field, a rematch of February’s Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif., which the Seahawks won 29-13.
The Khosla-led ownership group could add investors from the runner-up bidding group that it beat out to purchase the team, a source told FOS.
The other finalist in the bidding, FOS previously reported, was a group headed by Aditya Mittal and Wyc Grousbeck. Mittal is the CEO of steel and mining company ArcelorMittal and son of the company’s executive chairman, Lakshmi Mittal, whose family was recently part of a group that paid billions for a minority stake in Liverpool. Grousbeck was previously the governor of the Celtics and remains a minority owner after his family sold the team to a group led by Bill Chisholm in a $6 billion deal.
