Last year, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt filed for Chapter 11bankruptcy with hopes to remain the owner of the team. However, McCourt ultimately agreed to sell the Dodgers through a court-supervised auction where he would choose the winning bidder.
8 different bidders came forward, 5 of which were rejected by Major League Baseball. The 3 remaining bidders will bid for the Dodgers on an auction to be held this Wednesday or later this week. The auction is expected to sell the Dodgers for a record price for an American sports franchise, with the expected pricetag to be around $1.5 billion.
The 3 remaining bidders are:
--The partnership of Connecticut hedge-fund billionaire Steven Cohen and Los Angeles biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, with a combined net worth estimated at $15.5 billion.
--Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Rams and five other sports teams, with a net worth estimated at $3.2 billion.
--A group fronted by Magic Johnson and veteran baseball executive Stan Kasten and funded largely by Guggenheim Partners, a Chicago-based financial services firm that says it controls $125 billion in assets.
Once McCourt chooses a bidder, he must get approval from the Bankruptcy Courts on April 13 and close the transaction by April 30.
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