(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has reached an agreement to buy the New York Mets baseball team from its owners, Sterling Partners said in a statement on Monday.
“I am excited to have reached an agreement with the Wilpon and Katz families to purchase the New York Mets,” Cohen said.
A spokesman for Cohen declined to comment beyond the statement.
(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru and Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Boston; Editing by Arun Koyyur)