It’s official. Dyal Capital Partners and
Owl Rock Capital
are combining and going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company. Blue Owl Capital, the resulting entity, will list on the New York Stock Exchange.
The complicated deal goes like this: Dyal, a unit of Neuberger Berman that invests in alternative-asset managers, has agreed to merge with Owl Rock, a middle-market lender that also counts Dyal as an investor, to create Blue Owl, an alternative asset manager with $45 billion in assets under management.
Blue Owl will then combine with Altimar (ticker: ATAC), a SPAC from HPS Investment Partners. Blue Owl is expected to have a $12.5 billion market capitalization. It will trade sometime during the first half of 2021 on the NYSE under the symbol OWL.