Todd Boehly and his group of investors are all but confirmed as the new owners of the club.

Who are the people behind the consortium?

The BBC Sport takes a look.

Todd Boehly

Todd Boehly

Todd Boehly is the leader of the consortium. He is a part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a seven-time baseball World Series champion.

He and Mark Walter own 27% of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Boehly founded a private holding company that invests in multiple industries. He has invested in life insurance firms, real estate companies and technology companies, as well as Bruce Springsteen's song rights and sports betting firm DraftKings.

He invested in Aurify Brands, which owns restaurant chains such as Le Pain Quotidien and Chuck E. Cheese.

He is the interim chief executive of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Clearlake Capital

Clearlake Capital is a private equity firm that would own a majority of the shares.

It has more than $68 billion in assets under management and has led or co-led more than 300 investments.

The software and technology, energy and food and consumer services industries are the focus of the portfolio.

Mark Walter

Mark Walter

Guggenheim Partners is a privately held global financial services firm with headquarters in New York and Chicago. Assets under management at Guggenheim Partners is more than $250 billion.

Walter is a co-owner of the LA Dodgers, who won the 2020 World Series, and has a stake in the LA Lakers. The Sports Business Journal named him the eighth most influential person in sports business.

His investments include stakes in Beyond Meat and Carvana.

He and his wife own a wildlife preserve in Florida.

Hansjoerg Wyss

Hansjoerg Wyss

Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss is worth $5 billion and has amassed his fortune through the sale of his medical device manufacturer.

He holds stakes in two companies.

According to Forbes, 86-year-old Wyss is among the most philanthropic people in the world, signing The Giving Pledge in order to give away most of his fortune.

He has made major donations to environmental and scientific causes, with the assets of his charitable foundations totalling nearly $2 billion.

He pledged $120 million to two Swiss universities in order to establish a centre to accelerate medical breakthrough, while he wrote in the New York Times that he would donate $1 billion to conserve the world over a decade.

Barbara Charone is an American PR executive.

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