<p data-para-count="171" data-total-count="171">The Alibaba Group provided the investment firm Silver Lake with a multibillion-dollar payday when the Chinese e-commerce giant went public two years ago.</p>
<p data-para-count="107" data-total-count="278">Now, Silver Lake is betting that an investment in an <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/alibaba/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="">Alibaba</a> affiliate could help it strike gold once more.</p>