Media & Entertainment Group
The media business has been and continues to struggle. Decreased demand and fewer advertisers results in lower advertising rates which, when combined with industry-wide overleveraging has created real and sustained challenges. While companies have laid-off workers, renegotiated vendor contracts and restructured debt facility terms, as a result of industry-wide over leveraging and economic compression leave many companies barely able to tread water.
These companies must act quickly, before crisis demands drastic action and opportunities are lost. NHB has relationships with lenders and investors throughout the United States and the world. NHB’s knowledge of the industry and our relationships create opportunities of consolidation beneficial to all parties. Strategic partnerships and potential sales in this new climate have become more and more realistic and at more realistic multiples. Those who do act can also benefit from controlled liquidations, making possible controlled downsizings that maximize value for stakeholders, both past, present and future.
NHB Advisors, Inc. has a long and successful track record in the media space, including media technology, entertainment, and telecommunications, broadcast and cable assets.
As a result of this extensive operating, banking, and successful turnaround experience, NHB Advisors, Inc. has developed a time-tested and standardized approach to working with media and telecom companies as borrowers, lenders and investors and targets.
Because of the many years of experience, both in the transactional and operating sides, NHB professionals are especially effective in the many facets of the medial property turnaround process. Our professionals have hands-on experience operating media companies in several verticals in the space, including film and television production and post production; television and radio broadcasting; telecom and cable, and we have extensive experience in the valuation of media libraries.
NHB professionals have extensive knowledge of the digital media industry and space, having directly teamed with Silicon Valley firms to fund and market diverse new media technologies. Because of our background and history in technology, we are often asked to speak on the future of technology as it affects the business of traditional media. This experience crucially important in the media area as traditional media looks forward. We have vast experience in the creation, structuring and implementation of business plans for both growth and traditional media companies as they adjust their plans to fit the future. NHB also augments media company performance through our experience in the evaluation and implementation of best practices into media (and other industry) operations and in sales-force and management compensation optimization, through use of creative incentive programs and marketing services that align the economic interests
of all stakeholders.
NHB professionals, as transactional advisors (bankers), have worked on such large media deals as Sony’s acquisition of MGM and NBC’s acquisition of Universal through the range of market sizes to small deals such as the funding and creation of Media Defender. NHB has advised creditors and creditor committees of traditional media enterprises including newspapers, cable television companies and other “old media” and infrastructure companies. Our banking experience includes sale-side, buy side and restructuring advisory engagements. Our relationships have been nurtured over 25 years have withstood the test of time to span all levels of management within the both the dealmaker community and varied numerous media companies, both large- and middle-market. These relationships are very important as we work to create markets for sales and execute the consolidation of companies, as we are able to efficiently and effectively direct our deals to the correct executives within each company and get top-level consideration.
Overview of experience for Media, entertainment companies
Maximize value, opportunity: Companies must ensure they have an experienced financial advisor protect and advance their interests while maximizing value, creating and pursuing strategic opportunities while minimizing costs. NHB Advisors, Inc. has considerable experience in operations, valuation, equity funding, M&A, and debt structuring and restructuring in the media and telecom businesses.
- NHB Advisors, Inc. has advised private equity in purchase of large media assets.
- NHB Advisors, Inc.successfully operated and sold Cable-Telephony Company to large Carrier
- NHB Advisors, Inc. has provided valuation and negotiation services to
dozens of media companies
- NHB Advisors, Inc. has successful overseen the sale and acquisition
several media companies
- NHB Advisors, Inc. has managed acquisitions, restructurings and industry rollups
The Groups focus encompasses
- Acting as CRO, CEO, or Advisor for distressed companies
- Consulting for lender or lender groups
- Advisor for legal counsel
- Advisor for asset purchase agreement
- Direct advisor for cost reduction and profitability enhancement
- Advisor in the M&A, sale, or strategic partnership