Blackstone Makes Minority Investment in Marlin Equity Partners

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT DEALS BLOG

June 5, 2019

On May 16, 2019, Marlin Equity Partners, LLC announced that Blackstone’s Strategic Capital Group has made a strategic minority investment in the firm.

Pursuant to the transaction, Blackstone’s Strategic Capital Group (“Blackstone”), has made a passive minority investment in Marlin Equity Partners, LLC (“Marlin”). Further terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Marlin, headquartered in California, is a global private equity investment firm that specializes in industries including software, healthcare IT, technology, tech-enabled services, and industrial technology. Marlin has $6.7 billion of capital under management.

Blackstone is part of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management L.P. (“BAAM”), the hedge fund division of publicly traded alternative investment firm, Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX). BAAM has approximately $80 billion in assets under management.

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