{"id":677863,"date":"2026-04-17T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:25","slug":"head-of-santa-monica-based-private-equity-firm-to-buy-san-diego-padres-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677863\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Of Santa Monica-Based Private Equity Firm To Buy San Diego Padres: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose E. Feliciano, the co-founder and managing partner of Santa Monica-based private-equity firm Clearlake Capital Group, and his wife have reached a deal to buy the San Diego Padres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48513749\/source-padres-finalizing-sale-mlb-record-39-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for a record $3.9 billion<\/a>, ESPN and other sports outlets reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal is approved by Major League Baseball, it would supersede the current record $2.4 billion that the New York Mets sold for in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Feliciano, who was born in Puerto Rico, founded Clearlake Capital in 2006 with Iranian-American businessman Behdad Eghbali.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which has more than $90 billion of assets under management, is <a href=\"https:\/\/clearlake.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">headquartered in Santa Monica<\/a> and has affiliate offices globally.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, a Los Angeles native, is the CEO of the motivational media company SUPERCHARGED and is also the co-founder of a philanthropic platform named after her and her husband. The couple met while both were students at Princeton.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, the pair would have an equal stake in the MLB team, but Feliciano would be the controlling owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose E. Feliciano, the co-founder and managing partner of Santa Monica-based private-equity firm Clearlake Capital Group, and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-677863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116421922894368539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}