NFL owners on Wednesday approved the sale of a minority non-controlling interest in the Giants to Julia Koch and her family, the team and league announced.

The Giants had been shopping up to 10% of the franchise since early this year, and Koch secured that 10% with an offer of more than $1 billion, Bloomberg first reported in early September.

The deal gave the franchise a valuation of more than $10 billion.

The Mara and Tisch families now will each own 45% of the team and continue to share control, with the leadership structure remaining intact with John Mara as president and CEO and Steve Tisch as executive vice president and chairman.

Mara and Tisch both attended the league’s fall meetings at a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tisch declined to speak to reporters

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