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Established in 1999, GP Bullhound Ltd is Europe’s most active advisor to fast growing technology and digital media companies. To date, GP Bullhound has successfully closed over 60 M&A transactions and private placements. This track record speaks for itself.
The firm has three dedicated sector teams - Internet / Digital Media; Software / Services and; Semiconductors / Systems. The teams have a broad range of transactional experience covering buy-side mandates for public companies, cross-border trade sales and early-stage fundraising.
With offices in London and San Francisco, GP Bullhound keeps a constant eye on the local entrepreneurial community, venture market and corporate environment. This allows the firm to provide the best possible advice to its clients. GP Bullhound demonstrates thought leadership through its monthly research reports. These reports cover the new disruptive trends in the technology sector. Furthermore, GP Bullhound has founded and continues to manage important industry events including the highly recognised Investor Allstars and Media Momentum awards.
GP Bullhound’s mergers and acquisitions practice focuses on cross-border transactions between Europe and the US with senior partner representation in both London and San Francisco.
Great companies and great people drive our business.
As a world leader in private equity, we work with talented management teams to develop businesses that have potential for significant growth.
Each year we invest over €2.7bn supporting people who start, grow, change and buy businesses.
We’ve been doing this for over 60 years; delivering significant power to the people we work with through our knowledge, experience and global network of relationships.
Ultimately, we’re driven by our strong sense of values. We form close partnerships with the companies we invest in and we build strong relationships based on integrity, trust and mutual respect.
Sky Digital Media is responsible for advertising sales across a network of 172 sites with a reach of over 15.9 m unique users. Our portfolio of sites includes Britain’s leading sports network as well as major fashion, music and entertainment brands. We offer advertisers everything from broad reach volume campaigns to bespoke integrated sponsorship deals.
Olswang is a leading business law firm with a distinctive approach. Its pioneering and problem-solving ethos has established a commanding reputation in the technology, media and real estate sectors, as well as a wide range of other industries.
Founded in 1981, the Firm has grown to a team of over 600, including 90 partners, across four offices in Europe. In addition, Olswang has a formal alliance with a major US firm Greenberg Traurig LLP and a long-established best friends network of leading independent law firms throughout the world.
This year, Olswang's industry knowledge and achievements have been recognised by market leading publications. The Firm has been awarded TMT Law Firm of the Year 2008 at the Legal Business Awards, and has been named M&A Law Firm of the Year 2008 at the M&A Awards. Both awards are testament to the outstanding work of the Media, Communications and Technology, and Corporate Groups at Olswang.
For four years Olswang has been ranked in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For and its strong management team is dedicated to the personal and professional development of its people.
ECI is one of the longest established private equity groups in the UK, specialising in buyouts, buy-ins and development capital deals valued between £10 and £150 million. Having provided finance to more than 250 companies over the last two decades, our team has a wealth of experience that it can put to use in helping to build your business. We focus on investing in high growth sectors and have had considerable success in the digital media sector backing amongst others Laterooms.com, Bounty, M&M Direct and Holiday Autos. We continue to seek out investment opportunities in the digital media sector.
Spectrum is an executive search firm operating exclusively within the communications, media and technology sector in the UK, Europe and the USA. Partnering with a range of client organisations, from pre-funded start-ups through to listed multinational corporations, we proactively find and select the senior talent required to drive business growth.
Parys Communications is an independent PR firm, set up in 2004, with a primary focus on the technology, media and telecoms sectors, as well as representing a wide range of other organisations. The distinctive Parys approach means long-standing client relationships with some of the biggest brands in the UK, while delivering quality results for smaller emerging companies.
Parys offer many in-house services, including Media training, Public affairs, copywriting, Media relations, Blogger relations, Consumer and business research, Product launches, Awards submission, Crisis management, Event management and Corporate entertainment.
New Media Age is the UK's only weekly magazine covering the business of interactive media: the Internet, wireless internet and interactive TV. It's essential reading for anyone using interactive media to communicate with their customers, and for all the companies providing the products and services that make those communications possible.
It brings its readers exclusive news, informed analysis, thought-provoking commentary and detailed, in-depth features, all aimed at answering the fundamental question: how can interactive media improve my business?
New trade title Mobile Entertainment is the magazine the emerging wireless content industry has been waiting for. The mobile telecoms industry is moving beyond voice and text into entertainment – now it has a trade publication which will deliver the news, analyse the issues and provide essential reference material on this exciting new market.
Media Momentum Featured Digital Creative Firm 2008
Pod1 is an independent agency with offices in London and New York. A team of 60 strategic, creative and technical specialists, Pod1 is one of the fastest growing creative digital agencies in the UK. Pod1 has deep experience across a number of in sectors including fashion, hotel and travel, financial and B2B; clients include Coast, Whistles, Kurt Geiger, Reiss, Hiscox, Picture Financial and Paramount Hotels.
