Press Release – Make Lemonade Otautahi – Most players and the wider public have a real desire to keep the All Blacks entirely New Zealand-owned. The sum of New Zealand rugby will forever be 12.5 percent smaller if it sells that stake to US private equity firm Silver Lake. The … Otautahi – Most players and the wider public have a real desire to keep the All Blacks entirely New Zealand-owned. The sum of New Zealand rugby will forever be 12.5 percent smaller if it sells that stake to US private equity firm Silver Lake. The US company is offering $387.5 million for that slice. NZ Rugby wants the deal to go ahead but is yet to get the support it needs from the Rugby Players’ Association.