Ubisoft Seeks Investors for Spin-Off Company Holding Its Key Franchises
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- It seems like Ubisoft is looking to sell a minority stake in a new venture that would house the company’s top IP, like Assassin’s Creed.
- Tencent, which already owns Ubisoft’s shares, is one of the company’s invited to bid for the stake at the new entity.
- Ubisoft has faced financial challenges, with a 43% drop in share price last year.
Ubisoft is seeking investors to form a new entity that will house some of its most valuable gaming intellectual property, including the Assassin’s Creed franchise, according to Bloomberg’s report.
Reportedly, the company is considering selling a minority stake in the venture, with major potential bidders such as Tencent Holdings among those invited to place preliminary bids this month (March 2025).
The new entity is expected to hold some of Ubisoft’s core assets, which would allow the company to focus on restructuring. Ubisoft is reportedly aiming to assign a valuation to this new unit that could exceed the size of the entire parent company, which has seen its stock price plummet over the past few years.
It is worth noting that in 2024, Ubisoft’s share price dropped by 43%, and its latest quarterly earnings showed a 50% drop in sales compared to the same period a year earlier.
On top of that, Ubisoft has previously announced several studio closures, affecting hundreds, if not thousands, of employees. The most recent closure occurred in January 2025, when its Leamington studio was shut down. This studio had worked on major titles such as Star Wars Outlaws and Far Cry 5. Additionally, in 2024, Ubisoft closed its studios in San Francisco and Osaka as part of preparations for the shutdown of XDefiant’s servers in June 2025.
