Redbird Capital Partners Management LLC
RedBird builds companies in partnership with leading entrepreneurs and holders of the world's most iconic intellectual property.
- Regulatory AUM
- $14B
- PE fund assets
- $13B
- PE funds
- 48
- Investments held
- 39 of 44
- Deals, last 12 months
- 7
55 additional team members, 32 additional counterparties and placement agents, 91 additional funds, deals and LP commitments
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- 4 deals180 days
4 deals since 30 Apr 2026: bought Kilfoyle (add-on, 31 Aug), Nokes & Co.
What it is buying now is the best guide to what it will buy next.
People to know
View all people- Founder And Managing PartnerWhy: Managing partner: runs the firmNo route on file yet
- Partner, Head of Sports & MediaWhy: Partner: part of the investment decisionNo route on file yet
- Partner, Sports, Media & EntertainmentWhy: Partner: part of the investment decisionNo route on file yet
Capital path
who backs this record, through what, into what; each name opens its own path- Lincoln Plaza Fund, LPvintage 2024
- Redbird Imi Media Joint Venture, LLCvintage 2023
- RB Rouge Co-Invest, LPvintage 2022
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPlegal adviser, 3 shared
- Goldman Sachs & Co. LLCplacement agent, 3 shared
- Liontree Advisors LLCfinancial adviser, 2 shared
Relationship network
176 connected entities7 observed deals2 repeat counterparties5 dated deals shown here, 2025 to 2026
From announced deals and their parties, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the private equity graph. Dollar figures appear only where a source disclosed one.
Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.
Click any name or line for the deals and sources behind it. Line weight is deals together; dashed lines are inferred.
- Company
- Service provider
- Fund or vehicle
- Person
›How strength and recency are read
Strength is read from the deals: three or more is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat counterparty, one a single interaction. People and vehicles are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
Classification, Form ADV and stated criteria
Classification, Form ADV and stated criteria
How this organization is classified, and on what basisBuyout firm · 2 in historyShowHide
- Class
- Buyout firmconfirmed, confidence 85%
- Basis
- 51 of 51 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 51 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
- Size band
- Upper middle marketdefined by: proxy: $12.56bn Private Equity Fund GAV on the Form ADV filed 2026-03-31
- Strategies
- Private credit
Classification history (2)
- Sep 23, 2026Buyout firm (confirmed, 85%)51 of 51 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 51 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
- Sep 13, 2026Buyout firm (confirmed, 85%)42 of 42 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 42 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
Regulatory footprint (Form ADV)RAUM $14B · 48 PE funds · filed Mar 31, 2026ShowHide
- Adviser type
- Registered investment adviser
- Form ADV filings
- Nov 11, 2013 to Mar 31, 2026
- RAUM
- $14Bregulatory assets under management of the adviser; not dry powder, not a fund size
- PE funds, latest filing
- 48
- PE fund GAV, latest filing
- $13Breported gross assets (Form ADV), not fund size
- All private fund GAV
- $13Bevery private fund type, latest filing
- 2024 PE fund GAV
- $13Bsum over funds typed Private Equity Fund with a 2024 or later as-of date
- PE share of funds, lifetime
- 100%
- Fund type mix
- Private equity fund: 48 funds, $13B reported gross assets, 51 ever reported
- Employees
- 70
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
Stated criteria beside observed behaviour3 of 8 criteria stated · 44 observed dealsShowHide
- Sectors
- Franchising, media telecom, distribution, financial services
- Geography
- Europe, United States
- Revenue
- not stated or not yet read
- EBITDA
- not stated or not yet read
- Enterprise value
- not stated or not yet read
- Equity check
- not stated or not yet read
- Control
- not stated or not yet read
- Thesis
- We invest across all stages of the company lifecycle as well as the capital stack, making us a flexible solutions provider for our ecosystems and capital partners.
- On record
- 44 companies, 44 holdings, 7 transactions
- Period
- 2015 to 2026 (49 dated observations, 2 holdings undated)
- Most deals
- Media telecom (14 of 44, e.g. Bucket Listers and YES Network), business services (7 of 44), financial services (4 of 44) and 3 more
- Subsectors
- Media telecom (14 of 44), financial services (4 of 44), live events and sports management (3 of 44), software (2 of 44) and 4 more
- Deal roles
- 4 platforms, 7 add-ons, 33 with role not stated
- Add-ons per platform
- 1.75 add-ons per platform
- Control
- 7 control, 37 not stated
- Holding period
- median 2 years across 5 exits
- Bought from
- 1 family, 1 unknown
- By year
- 2025: 2 add-ons; 2026: 5 add-ons
- Repeat counterparties
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (legal adviser) on 3 deals and Liontree Advisors LLC (financial adviser) on 2 deals
44 companies on the graph (7 transactions); most in media telecom (14); 4 platforms and 7 add-ons; median observed hold 2.0 years (5 exits); observed 2015 to 2026
Funds
How vehicles are groupedFeeders, parallels, executive funds, alternative investment vehicles and lettered sleeves are folded under the fund they belong to, read from the vehicle names. Deal-by-deal co-investment vehicles are pooled. Current funds come first: families are ordered by vintage, newest first, among those holding at least a twentieth of the largest family’s assets, then by size. The figure is the sum of each vehicle’s latest reported gross assets on Form ADV, not a fund size.Lincoln Plaza Fund · 1 vehicle · vintage 2024$1.8B
- Lincoln Plaza Fund buyout or unlabelled$1.8B
Redbird Imi Media Joint Venture · 1 vehicle · vintage 2023$1.4B
- Redbird Imi Media Joint Venture buyout or unlabelled · 2023$1.4B
Co-investment vehicles · 1 vehicle · vintage 2022$912M
- RB Rouge Co-Invest Co-investment vehicle · 2022$912M
Decision makers
- Gerald Joseph Cardinale · Founder And Managing PartnerWhy this person: Managing partner: runs the firm; Named with investment responsibility
- David Castelblanco · Partner, Head of Sports & MediaWhy this person: Partner: part of the investment decision; Named with investment responsibility
- Julia Wittlin · Partner, Sports, Media & EntertainmentWhy this person: Partner: part of the investment decision; Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Team
Where the team comes fromEach row names its source in short; hover the source for its full description. Sources on this list: SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B, 1.I websites); Investment organization websites (team, portfolio, strategy, criteria, news). A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once, with both sources.- Founder And Managing Partner · since Oct 1, 2014
- Partner, Head of Sports & Media
- Partner, Sports, Media & Entertainment
Deals
How deals are mergedOne row per deal. A portfolio relationship and a transaction that describe the same deal (the same transaction, or the same company on the same date) are printed once, with the columns of both. 44 portfolio relationships and 7 transactions are on this record.| Date | Company | Deal | This firm’s role | Status | Partner | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Kilfoyle add-on to Obra Capital | Add-on acquisition | Sponsor (derived) | active held 1 month | unknown | obra.com |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Nokes & Co. add-on to Affinia | Add-on acquisition | Sponsor (derived) | active held 1 month | unknown | affinia.co.uk |
| Aug 11, 2026 | ATG Entertainment add-on to MARI | Add-on acquisition | Sponsor (derived) | active held 2 months | unknown | marigrp.com |
Portfolio credit
Where these figures come fromPortfolio companies matched to a BDC borrower by an identity-graded bridge, read from each BDC’s own schedule of investments: the lenders’ marks, their accrual footnotes, PIK and maturities. Observed, never forecast. Firms whose own BDC lends to the company are left out.- Principal held
- $64.0M
- 5 lenders
- Weighted mark
- 102.2
- unchanged on the quarter, same 1
- Non-accrual now
- 0
- 0 placed at Jun 30, 2026
- Marked down
- 0
- 2 pts or more on the quarter
- Maturing in 12 months
- 0
- none stated
- 1 portfolio company on a BDC schedule at Jun 30, 2026: 0 with ownership stated current, 1 listed on a portfolio page with no date or status.
- Lenders mark them at 102.2 on cost, weighted by principal (1 borrower with a mark inside the plausible band).
- On the 1 borrower marked at both Mar 31, 2026 and Jun 30, 2026, the weighted mark moved 0 points; 0 fell 2 points or more and 0 rose 2 points or more.
- 1 borrower had PIK interest added or increased at Jun 30, 2026.
- Not counted above: 2 borrowers still on a BDC schedule whose ownership by this sponsor is recorded as exited.
Show the credit outlook: 1 borrowers, 5 lenders, 8 quartersas of Jun 30, 2026
1 borrower is in every figure above and named with Private Credit Intelligence.
5 lenders are counted here and named with Private Credit Intelligence.
| Quarter end | Held | Principal | Mark | Non-accrual placed | PIK added or up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2024 | 1 | $55.8M | 99.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 1 | $109M | 100.6 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 1 | $48.8M | 100.9 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 1 | $52.6M | 102.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 1 | $52.5M | 102.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 1 | $67.2M | 101.4 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 1 | $59.6M | 101.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30, 2026 | 1 | $64.0M | 102.2 | 0 | 1 |
A look back at today’s portfolio companies, not a record of what the sponsor owned then. Mark is fair value over cost across every position inside the plausible band.
- A mark is the lender's own fair value over cost for the quarter. Below 90 means the lender carries the loan at a discount of 10 or more on the dollar; it is that lender's valuation, not DFX's.
- Two lenders on the same facility 10 points apart are valuing the same loan differently; which one is right is not something a schedule of investments says.
- Non-accrual is read from the BDC's own footnote, never inferred from a mark. PIK is interest the borrower pays in more debt rather than cash.
- No forecast is made here. DFX does not publish a default or distress prediction for a sponsor.
Population: portfolio companies matched to a BDC borrower by an identity-graded bridge, on a BDC schedule of investments at Jun 30, 2026, ownership not recorded as exited. Firms whose own BDC lends to the company, and private credit managers, are left out: that is lending, not ownership. Marks, principal and accrual status are the BDCs' own filed figures; the quarter before is Mar 31, 2026.
Placement agents, lenders, advisers and co-investors
- Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC 3 shared · strong · last May 5, 2023
- Liontree Advisors LLC 2 shared · recurring · last Nov 3, 2025
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 3 shared · strong · last Aug 11, 2026
Placement agents by fund generation
| Agent | Funds | Years | Strategies | Latest generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | 3 | vintages 2019 to 2022 | Capital Partners, Co-Invest | not on the vintage 2024 generation |
| Icapital Securities, LLC | 2 | vintages 2019 to 2022 | Capital Partners | not on the vintage 2024 generation |
| Probitas Funds Group, LLC | 1 | vintage 2019 | not stated | not on the vintage 2024 generation |
From Form ADV Schedule D, which names the placement agents on each private fund an adviser reports, year by year.
LP commitments
How LPs are totalledOne line per LP, largest disclosed total first. A commitment that the same LP reports again in a later document is counted once in its total; both documents stay in the full list. Rows repeated line for line from one document are shown once.Events
- Mar 31, 2026Redbird Capital Partners Management LLC: Private Equity Funds on Form ADV 40 (2024 extract) -> 48 (roster 2026-09-01)
- Nov 11, 2013Redbird Capital Partners Management LLC first filed Form ADV in the extract (IA)
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Redbird Capital Partners Management LLC is the same institution as 4 records in Allocators, Independent Sponsors, RIA and Wealth and Private Credit.
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Redbird Capital Partners Management LLC sits on 2 traced paths of capital across the graphs.
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Record history
- PE fund count changed2026-03-31source on record
- Adviser first ADV filing2013-11-11source on record
- Firm newsseen 2026-09-16source on record
+2 more changes on this record's ledger
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