The news of EA going private and getting acquired by a Saudi-led consortium was nothing short of shocking. This acquisition is a gigantic $55 billion leveraged buyout shared by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake, and Miami investment firm Affinity Partners. President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was also involved in the deal, so this whole ordeal is certainly contentious. But in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EA assured its employees they have nothing to worry about, for now.
