Silver Lake, the NZR stake & the media - a cautionary tale
NZ Rugby’s links to the US private equity giants were revealed 18 months ago. What seemed fait accompli instead became a schoolyard scrap - I had a ringside seat.
On May Day, 2021, Brent Impey appeared on Martin Devlin’s DRS show on NewstalkZB to sell the vision of Silver Lake buying a stake in New Zealand Rugby.
A very short time later the then-NZR chairman was back again, this time to rebut New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association boss Rob Nichol, who had appeared on the DRS following Impey.
It was call-and-respons…
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