Company type | Public company |
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Industry | Financial services |
Founded | May 19, 2021 [1] [2] |
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Headquarters | 399 Park Avenue, New York City , United States |
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Revenue | US$823.88 million (December 31, 2021) |
US$1.80 billion (December 31, 2021) | |
AUM | US$165 billion (December 31, 2023) |
Total assets | US$8.27 billion (December 31, 2021) |
Total equity | US$5.85 billion (December 31, 2021) |
Number of employees | 685 (December 31, 2023) |
Website | www |
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Blue Owl Capital (also known as Blue Owl) is an American alternative investment asset management company. It is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: "OWL". [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The company is headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and elsewhere.
In December 2020, it was announced there would be a merger between Owl Rock Capital Group and Dyal Capital Partners. [1] [2] The two firms would combine with a special-purpose acquisition company, Altimar Acquisition Corp to form Blue Owl. [1] [2] [8] The deal was valued at $12.2 billion which included a $1.5 billion commitment from investors such as ICONIQ Capital, Federated Hermes and Liberty Mutual. [1] [2]
On May 19, 2021, the transaction was completed and Blue Owl was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]
On October 18, 2021, Blue Owl acquired Oak Street, a private equity real estate firm for $950 million. [7] [9] [10] [11] [12]
On December 13, 2021, Blue Owl acquired Ascentium Group, a business development office based in Hong Kong. [13] This was done as part of its plans to expand in Asia. [13]
In October 2022, Bloomberg reported Blue Owl intended to expand the size of its offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and had opened an office in New Jersey. [14]
Blue Owl has three business units:
Dyal Capital was formed in 2011 by Michael Rees and Sean Ward who were both formerly of Lehman Brothers. [2] [15] [16] Since inception, the firm has been part of Neuberger Berman which currently retains a stake in Blue Owl as a result of the merger. [2] [15] [16]
Dyal Capital provides financing to hedge funds and private equity firms by acquiring minority interests in them. [7] [15] [16] Firms it has acquired interests in include:
In July 2021, Dyal Capital acquired minority stakes in the NBA teams, Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings. [24] [25]
In March 2022, Blue Owl announced it planned to hold an IPO for Dyal Capital on the London Stock Exchange. [11]
In June 2023, Bloomberg reported that Dyal Capital would be renamed to Blue Owl GP Strategic Capital due to tensions among the co-founders where Rees was asked to resign. Dyal Capital came from the name of his children. [26]
Fund [27] | Vintage Year | Committed Capital ($m) |
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Dyal Capital Partners | 2012 | USD 1,280 |
Dyal Capital Partners II | 2014 | USD 837 |
Dyal Capital Partners III | 2017 | USD 5,300 |
Dyal Capital Partners IV | 2019 | USD 9,000 |
Dyal Capital Partners V [28] | 2022 | USD 13,000 |
Oak Street was founded in 2009 by Marc Zahr and James Hennessey. [10] [29] [12]
Oak street is private equity real estate firm based in Chicago that focuses on structuring sale-leasebacks. [7] [29] [12]
In August 2021, Oak Street acquired The Bow in Calgary for $1.2 billion. [30] In September 2022, Oak Street and GIC agreed to acquire Store Capital for $14 Billion. [31]
Owl Rock was founded in 2016 by Doug Ostrover (co-founder of GSO Capital Partners), Marc Lipschultz (former KKR partner) and Craig Packer (formerly of Goldman Sachs). [2] [32]
The firm is a middle market Private credit direct lending firm that deals with credit investments. [2] [32] [7] Its clients include George Soros, Brown University and the state of South Carolina. [32]
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