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Founder of Thrive Capital, identified in the reporting as the younger brother of Jared Kushner.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Thrive would have paid as much as $4.2 billion for about 20% of a FIFA subsidiary it would not have controlled, in a structure where the approval that mattered sat with confederations that say they were never asked.
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Infantino spent roughly a year assembling a 21% carve-out of FIFA's tournament rights at a $20 billion mark, then withdrew it on 31 July after the file reached the council members who had been kept outside it.
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Fortune reports a tax logic under the Thrive founder's franchise purchase. On one analyst's allocation estimate, the deal implies roughly $750 million a year of deductible amortization.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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Thrive Capital was lined up and JPMorgan was advising. Three confederations and the threat of a World Cup boycott ended it anyway, which tells you what actually gates capital in sports rights.
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