Everton FC is deepening its ties with Texas, after Christopher Sarfim became a minority investor in the Matrix of the Premier League club.
Liverpool’s team was bought last year by Houston’s billionaire Dan Friedkin, whose fortune comes from the administration of one of Toyota’s only two private distributors in the US.
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Sarfim, president of the American background manager Fayez Sarfim & Co and Houston Texans, is investing in the round of the capital Holdings Limited, which controls Everton, according to a statement.
Sarfim’s participation was not disclosed, but is below the 10% limit that requires new owners to be evaluated by Premier League, according to a source familiar with the business.
Both Friedkin and Saronfra have strong ties with Texas. Sarfim, 61, is the son of Fayez Sarfim, the Texan background manager of Egyptian origin who has become a billionaire through an investment strategy he summed up as “never selling”.
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Fayez Sarfim, who died in 2022, founded the funds manager who bears his name in 1958 at the age of 30. He was part of the group led by Richard Kinder, president and co -founder of Kinder Morgan Inc., who paid $ 22 billion to buy the transportation company for Houston -based power storage in 2006.
Friedkin Group is open to add more investors to Everton’s owners group, the source added. In 2020, Friedkin paid $ 591 million for Roma, one of Italy’s most famous clubs. The British newspaper Guardian He first reported the sale of shareholding to Sarfim.
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