Financial tombstone marking the sale by H2 Equity Partners of its Dutch portfolio company Eska Graphic Board. Eska, which had been acquired by H2 in 2006, was sold to the private equity firm Andlinger & Company.
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A range of content and marketing channels are represented here, including streaming and digital services, social media, billboards, and print.
Financial tombstone marking the sale by H2 Equity Partners of its Dutch portfolio company Eska Graphic Board. Eska, which had been acquired by H2 in 2006, was sold to the private equity firm Andlinger & Company.
(4LMK03Y)Lucite tombstone commemorating the acquisition of CBS Outdoor International by Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity. CBS Outdoor International is one of the largest out-of-home media and billboard businesses in Europe, operating in the U.K., Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Spain, as well as China.
Custom deal toy commemorating the sale by McGraw-Hill Companies of its McGraw-Hill Education division.
Custom Lucite commemorating offering of secured billboard revenue notes for Adams Outdoor Advertising, headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Barclays Capital served as sole structuring advisor and lead bookrunning manager for the offering.
Deal toy marking the acquisition of The Huffington Post, headquartered in New York, by AOL, also based in New York. AOL was advised in the transaction by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Financial tombstone celebrating a strategic partnership between the Austin-based Texas Teacher Retirement System and two private equity firms, Apollo Global Management, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Lucite tombstone marking Bloomberg L.P.’s acquisition of BusinessWeek from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., all based in New York. Evercore Partners advised McGraw-Hill in the transaction.
Deal toy marking the merger through Chapter 11 reorganization of Baltimore-based advertising firm Vertis Communication, and American Color Graphics, a print service provider headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.
The galleries beginning on this page provide over 70 images of financial tombstones and deal toys from the media and publishing space. You’ll find deals involving a range of technologies, channels, and content, including traditional print, streaming services, radio, video games, social media, and game publishers.
You’ll also see transactions and deal tombstones involving a number of prominent media companies and brands in these sectors. These include TelevisaUnivision, Conde Nast, Sky, Viacom, Liberty Global, Discovery, ZeniMax, DC Comics, McGraw Hill, and Sirius.
But you’ll also discover here deals involving less familiar players, media, and properties. These might include Series A funding for a Danish podcast provider, the initial public offering of an Australian billboard and outdoor media company, the acquisition of a German book wholesaler, the merger of two independent comic book publishers, the acquisition of an adtech agency, and financing provided to a French publishing firm.
Finally, you’ll find in these galleries commemoratives and awards not related to a financial transaction. These custom designs honor a range of milestones and achievements in these sectors. They celebrate, for example, the launch of one sports network, and the rebranding of another, joint venture partnerships between content providers, and a successful copyright judgment brought by a publisher regarding an iconic comic book character.
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