BlackRock Deal Mints GIP Fortunes Led By Ogunlesi’s Billions

  • GIP co-founder Adebayo Ogunlesi is now worth $2.3 billion
  • Deal gives other founding partners multimillion dollar payoffs
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Adebayo OgunlesiPhotographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
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“Bayo” Ogunlesi had already racked up enough accolades to rival any of his elite friends.

There’s the undergraduate degree with first-class honors from Oxford University, the law degree and MBA from Harvard and a clerkship on the Supreme Court under Thurgood Marshall. He was head of Credit Suisse’s investment-banking division and lead independent director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.