Look at the biggest recent mergers and acquisitions in the worlds of entertainment, media and sports, from the record-setting $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts to the Skydance-Paramount merger and the dueling offers for Warner Bros. Discovery, and you’ll notice the same handful of names showing up again and again, often together in the same deal. They’re investment firms with names like RedBird Capital Partners, the Raine Group, LionTree Advisors and Silver Lake. Most provide financing for these huge transactions,...
Moelis & Co.
Carlos
Jimenez
Global Head of Media, Sports and Entertainment
While his associates at investment bank Moelis & Company advise on a broad cross-section of corporate M&A involving companies ranging from Tupperware to hotel chain Hyatt, L.A.-based Jimenez focuses on entertainment, media, tech and sports deals, most notably working with Skydance Media on its $8 billion merger with Paramount Global. Additionally, he recently advised Dorna Sports on its $4.4 billion sale to Liberty Media, LA.’s Angel City FC on a sale of a controlling stake to Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay, AMC Theatres on $2.45 billion capital raise and debt extension, UTA on its acquisition of sports agency Representatives of Outstanding Footballers (ROOF), and New Mountain Capital on its acquisition of Broadcast Music, Inc. The past few years have also seen him working on numerous deals at the epicenter of the collision of media and sports betting.