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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001517302-25-000093"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APAM"
cik: "0001517302"
company_name: "Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T18:45:58.138906+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Artisan Partners to acquire Grandview Property Partners ($940M AUM) for cash

## Summary
- APAM subsidiary agrees to buy 100% of Grandview, a U.S. middle-market real estate private equity firm.
- Purchase price: upfront cash plus contingent payments based on future fund capital raised through seven years post-close.
- Grandview manages ~$940 million in institutional assets; founding partners have 22-year average tenure.
- Transaction expected to close Q1 2026; Artisan expects immaterial 2026 financial impact, mildly accretive after next flagship fund.
- Artisan had $182.6B AUM as of Oct 31, 2025; acquisition expands into private real estate alternatives.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001517302-25-000093
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APAM
- cik: 0001517302
- company_name: Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517302/000151730225000093/0001517302-25-000093-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517302/000151730225000093/apam-20251116.htm

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