The Investments of New York’s Single-Family Offices in 2025

New York’s single family offices drove headline-grabbing deals in 2025, deploying capital across venture, private equity, and public markets. In one of the year’s biggest buyouts, 3G Capital – originally the family office of Jorge Paulo Lemann – agreed to take Skechers private for $9.42 billion, paying a 28% premium for the footwear company (Reuters). The deal, announced in May, marked the largest sneaker-industry acquisition on record and will keep Skechers’ founding Greenberg family at the helm post-buyout. It highlights how family-backed investment firms are willing to execute multibillion-dollar transactions.

Several New York family offices also monetized holdings through strategic exits. Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, for example, saw its stake in ride-hailing company Gett sold as part of a $188 million buyout by an Israeli institutional consortium (Gett Press Release). The August transaction provided an exit for Access after years of support. In the venture arena, crypto and fintech remained a focus: the Winklevoss twins’ family office made headlines by backing a new Bitcoin mining venture tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump (Bloomberg). The twins also donated $21 million in Bitcoin to a political action committee supporting crypto-friendly policies.

Family offices also led growth-equity investments. Declaration Partners – the David Rubenstein family office – took a majority stake in CP Group, a California recycling technology firm, to fuel expansion (Recycling Product News). The August deal provides capital for R&D in advanced sorting systems, automation and AI. Meanwhile, Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office actively repositioned its public markets portfolio (UPDATE, Nov 2025: According to The Family Office Herald, a leading Substack blog about family office deals, Duquesne also invested in German photonic computing startup Q.ANT), while Wildcat Capital (the family office of David Bonderman) seeded new hedge funds and invested directly into healthcare and technology.

Picture source: David Bravo (26.08.2025)