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Conor Miller Joins FOCUS Investment Banking as Managing Director

Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With over 20 years of executive leadership, M&A expertise, and business strategy experience, Conor strengthens FOCUS’s capabilities across multiple industry sectors, including Power Systems & Renewables, Outdoor Products & eCommerce, Advanced Manufacturing, and Telecommunications & Digital Media.

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Who Are the Best M&A Advisors for Tech Companies?

iMerge Advisors

APRIL 10, 2025

In the world of technology mergers and acquisitions, the right advisor can mean the difference between a transformative exit and a missed opportunity. Lower-Middle Market Tech Deals ($5M$50M) For founder-led SaaS, e-commerce, or digital media companies in this range, boutique M&A firms offer the most tailored service.

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Who are the best M&A advisors for tech companies?

iMerge Advisors

APRIL 9, 2025

In the world of technology mergers and acquisitions, the right advisor can mean the difference between a transformative exit and a missed opportunity. Lower-Middle Market Tech Deals ($5M$50M) For founder-led SaaS, e-commerce, or digital media companies in this range, boutique M&A firms offer the most tailored service.

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The Financial Benefits of Diversification Through M&A

Sun Acquisitions

APRIL 7, 2025

In today’s dynamic business landscape, strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a powerful tool for companies seeking to enhance their financial performance. Google: Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube was a strategic move to diversify its revenue streams beyond advertising.

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BuzzFeed in Advanced Talks to Sell Complex, Backtracking on Digital Media Bet

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2023

BuzzFeed is negotiating a sale of much of Complex Networks for under $140 million, less than half of what it paid to acquire it two years ago.

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Barry Diller Explores Bid to Take Control of Paramount

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

JULY 1, 2024

Diller, a digital media pioneer, lost a bidding war for Paramount Pictures decades ago. Now, he’s making a run at its parent company.

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Guardian Journalists Strike Over Planned Sale of The Observer

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Workers have begun a 48-hour walkout, the first in 50 years for the outlet, over a proposal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media, a digital media start-up.

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BuzzFeed Sells Complex, a Pop Culture Start-Up, for $108.6 Million

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The digital-media company, which has plunged in value, is selling the unit to Ntwrk at a significant discount from its 2021 purchase price.

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Gizmodo Is Sold to Keleops Media

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

JUNE 4, 2024

The tech website’s publisher, G/O Media, sold Gizmodo to the digital media and tech company Keleops.

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10 Concepts We Can Learn About Media Asset M&A in How2Exit's Interview W/ Michael Fink, Co-CEO Of Treasure Hunter

How2Exit

APRIL 9, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions of small businesses is also a great way to make money. AI is already making its mark in the digital media space. Concept 8: Sellers Prioritize Relationships However, one of the most important aspects of Treasure Hunter's acquisition strategy is the fact that they prioritize relationships.

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Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MARCH 28, 2024

Media companies to combine publishing and advertising platforms to target gen Z and millennials The Independent will take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in the UK and Ireland with the intention to create “Britain’s biggest publisher network for gen Z and millennial audiences”, the publishers have said.

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Succession Review: The Best Finance TV Show and One of the Best Shows of All Time

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 31, 2023

The show is also highly relevant to finance because entire seasons revolve around mergers, acquisitions, private equity, and shareholder revolts. But Succession is a product of the late 2010s and early 2020s, with Big Tech and digital media rising and legacy-media companies sinking.

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Vice files for bankruptcy protection amid cut-price sale to consortium

The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MAY 15, 2023

Digital publisher and owner of Vice News and Vice TV was once valued at $6bn but has agreed sale for $225m Vice, the once high-flying media startup that reached a peak valuation of nearly $6bn (£5bn), has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as the digital publisher engineers a cut-price sale to a group of lenders.

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Private Equity’s Increasing Consolidation of Oncology Practices

Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 13, 2023

Similarly, PE-backed platform companies have undergone substantial consolidation through mergers and acquisitions.” “We believe that lower cost, higher quality models represent the future of care delivery,” TPG Partner John Schilling said in the press release announcing the deal.

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Corwin Cleansing Denied In Action For Post-Closing Injunctive Relief Under Unocal

Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch

MAY 10, 2023

Background Limelight provides network service for delivery of digital media content and software. 5] In connection with the Acquisition, the parties agreed on a form of stockholders’ agreement (the “Stockholders’ Agreement”) that would govern the terms of College Parent’s investment following the closing.

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Conor Miller Joins FOCUS Investment Banking as Managing Director

Who Are the Best M&A Advisors for Tech Companies?

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Who are the best M&A advisors for tech companies?

The Financial Benefits of Diversification Through M&A

BuzzFeed in Advanced Talks to Sell Complex, Backtracking on Digital Media Bet

Barry Diller Explores Bid to Take Control of Paramount

Guardian Journalists Strike Over Planned Sale of The Observer

BuzzFeed Sells Complex, a Pop Culture Start-Up, for $108.6 Million

Gizmodo Is Sold to Keleops Media

10 Concepts We Can Learn About Media Asset M&A in How2Exit's Interview W/ Michael Fink, Co-CEO Of Treasure Hunter

Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

Succession Review: The Best Finance TV Show and One of the Best Shows of All Time

Vice files for bankruptcy protection amid cut-price sale to consortium

Private Equity’s Increasing Consolidation of Oncology Practices

Corwin Cleansing Denied In Action For Post-Closing Injunctive Relief Under Unocal

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