Tag: Michele Kang

The Analysis Series: Olympique Lyonnais, Two Ownership Transactions: the 2022 Eagle Football / John Textor acquisition and the 2026 Michele Kang / Olympe Bidco acquisition

28 June 2026 Sources: AMF / Euronext filings · Companies House (Cork Gully Statement of Proposals) · OL Groupe / Eagle Football Group press releases (Actusnews) · KBRA / DBRS Morningstar rating […]

Michele Kang’s press conference on completion of Olympique Lyonnais acquisition (26th June 2026)

  PRESS CONFERENCE: Michele Kang, OL President, and Michael Gerlinger, Managing Director. Source: Press conference transcript, Michele Kang (OL President / Majority Owner) and Michael Gerlinger (Managing Director), 23–26 June 2026 window […]

The Analysis Series: Ares – Eagle Football Bidco, debt notes inventory & Jersey listing 

Complete inventory of debt tranches, TISE listing status, and implications for Ares Capital Corporation and its noteholders Primary sources prioritised throughout; Secondary sources explicitly flagged Prepared 25 June 2026   Primary sources: […]

The Analysis Series: Assessment of Florida filing: Textor v. Eagle Football Holdings Bidco Limited, Lins and Montenegro (Case No. 50-2026-CA-006258-XXXA-MB, 15th Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County)

2026-06-12 Amended Complaint What this document actually is This is the Amended Before Reply Complaint, filed 12 June 2026 by McDonald Hopkins LLC (Alan Burger, Alaina Karsten) on Textor’s behalf, in Florida […]

Continuing the look at Eagle Football, Olympique Lyonnais etc….Michele Kang: ambition, complexity, and the Textor question

  The public version of Michele Kang’s story is clean, almost mythological: the daughter of educators in Seoul, using her parents’ bridal savings to flee political upheaval during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, […]