{"id":95793,"date":"2026-09-15T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/sequence-and-dell-family-office-agreed-a-7-7-billion-take-private-of-the-baldwin-group.html"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:25:11","slug":"sequence-and-dell-family-office-agreed-a-7-7-billion-take-private-of-the-baldwin-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/sequence-and-dell-family-office-agreed-a-7-7-billion-take-private-of-the-baldwin-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Sequence and Dell Family Office Agreed a $7.7 Billion Take-Private of The Baldwin Group:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-15-baldwin-hero.jpg\" alt=\"Sequence and Dell Family Office Agreed a $7.7 Billion Take-Private of The Baldwin Group:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 The Baldwin Group (NASDAQ: BWIN) announced on September 14 a definitive agreement for an entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management\u2014Michael Dell\u2019s family office\u2014to acquire a majority interest and take the insurance broker private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $7.7 billion of enterprise value, according to the company\u2019s Business Wire release and independently carried by Reuters and Bloomberg. Public shareholders are to receive $32.50 per share in cash, roughly an 88% premium to the June 17, 2026 unaffected close. The enterprise value splits as about $4.6 billion of equity value plus about $3.1 billion of net debt assumed or refinanced, per that same tape.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible Baldwin colleagues are to retain a significant minority stake after closing. Close is targeted for the first quarter of 2027, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. Sequence and DFO take majority control; the employee minority stake is the structural feature that keeps operating partners economically aligned through the private period.<\/p>\n<p>This is a signed take-private, not a rumor or a minority secondary. Mark the $7.7 billion EV, the $32.50 cash consideration, the ~88% premium to the June 17 unaffected close, the ~$4.6 billion equity \/ ~$3.1 billion net-debt split, the Q1 2027 close target, and the Sequence\u2013DFO majority with colleague minority as sourced. Do not invent a signed financing package beyond what the wires disclosed, an EBITDA multiple, or a regulatory-clearance date. The allocator object is a scale insurance-brokerage take-private led by a sponsor-plus-family-office majority with employee continuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 The Baldwin Group (NASDAQ: BWIN) announced on September 14 a definitive agreement for an entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management\u2014Michael Dell\u2019s family o\u2026 <a class=\"continue_reading_link btn btn-mini\" href=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/sequence-and-dell-family-office-agreed-a-7-7-billion-take-private-of-the-baldwin-group.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":95792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19467,19465,19464,19006,19463,18870,19466],"class_list":["post-95793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-equity","tag-bwin","tag-dell-family-office","tag-dfo-management","tag-insurance-brokerage","tag-sequence-holdings","tag-take-private","tag-the-baldwin-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}