Umvel, Inc.

Company: Umvel, Inc.
Industry: Digital Development and Engineering
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to NTT Data
RMG’s Role: M&A Adviser to Umvel

Established in Mexico City in 2013, Umvel helps global clients to upgrade, grow and transform their digital businesses with their team of over 140 software developers.

The combination will further allow NTT Data to expand their strategy of being the #1 digital innovation partner on the planet.

https://us.nttdata.com/en/news/press-release/2022/september/ntt-data-announces-intent-to-acquire-umvel

Itaal Shur

Asset: Itaal Shur’s Music Catalogue
Industry: Music Publishing
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited
RMG’s Role: M&A Adviser to Itaal Shur

Grammy winning Song Writer, Itaal Shur has worked with numerous Artists in the music industry for the past three decades. He is is best known for writing “Smooth”. Co-written with Rob Thomas and performed by Santana the song spent 12 consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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General American Capital Partners

Company: American Capital Partners (acquisition of FC Girondins de Bordeaux)
Industry: Professional Sports
Transaction: 100,000,000 Credit Facility
Investor: Fortress
RMG’s Role: Adviser to General American Capital Partners

General American Capital Partners LLC (“GACP”) is a private equity firm based in Miami Florida, founded by Joseph DaGrosa Jr. and David Neithardt (the “Senior Principals”). GACP is focused on making control and influential minority investments in companies located throughout the United States, Western Europe and Latin America. GACP seeks to invest in businesses in which it can partner with strong management teams to create long-term investor value. GACP acquired Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux– a French professional football club based in the city of Bordeaux. The club currently play in Ligue 1, the first division of French football.

IMRAS

Company: IMRAS
Industry: Music Publishing
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to Spirit Music Group
RMG’s Role: M&A Adviser to the AECG Companies

Established 2003, IMRAS is a worldwide, music and royalty administration company that specializes in the areas of TV and film related catalogs and the intricacies involved in the collection of performance royalties for broadcasts worldwide for composers and publishers.

http://www.imras.com 

Opus Music

Company: Opus 1
Industry: Music Library
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to Spirit Music Group
RMG’s Role: M&A Adviser to the AECG Companies

Established 1998 offering on-Line audition and licensing of all music. Opus 1 Music is the world’s fastest growing independent production music library and licensing company, currently representing over 150,000 tracks of pre-cleared music for use in every type of media.

http://opus1.sourceaudio.com/

The Music Collective

Company: The Music Collective
Industry: Production Music
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to Spirit Music Group
RMG’s Role: M&A Adviser to the AECG Companies

Founded in 1991, the Music Collective is a market leader in the business with an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the music industry.

The Company has a diversified client base across all media, decades long relationships with producers at the highest levels and a thorough understanding of the production process of every industry

http://themusiccollective.com

El Media Group

Company: El Media Group
Industry: Music styling
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to TouchTunes Music Corporation
RMG’s Role: M&A Advisor to El Media

Since being founded in 2004, El Media has grown to become the preeminent Custom Background Music Service provider and Audio/Video Design & Installation company for distinguished hotels/resorts, finest restaurants and select retailers. El Media has provided its services to over 350 A/V and 1,500 Music Service clients including Nobu, Tao, Del Frisco’s, Virgin, OTG, Mandarin Oriental, the Four Seasons 16 Handles, 5 Napkin and Umami Burger.

El Media was the first company to sell mass branded CDs from hotel rooms, produce custom music playlists for businesses, stream those playlists and create human curated playlists.

www.elmediagroup.com

Counterpoint Systems

Company: Counterpoint Systems
Industry: Rights Management Royalty Processing Software
Transaction: Undisclosed Sale to Vistex, Inc.
RMG’s Role: M&A Advisory

Founded in 1987, Counterpoint Systems is the world leader in software solutions for rights management, royalty processing and licensing. Counterpoint Systems helps clientsmaximize the exploitation of their intellectual property, reducing the time and cost of administration, and minimizing the risk of revenue or expense leakage. Counterpoint Systems’extensive client list of over 450 clients includes 20th Century Fox, BMG Rights Management, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, The Beanstalk Group and NHL Enterprises.Counterpoint Systems is headquartered in London and has offices in Los Angeles, and New York.

www.counterp.com

Horsehead

Company: Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry: Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #3: $86,000,000 Sale
RMG’s Role: Co-Advisor conducting a sales process resulting in sale of substantially all assets to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.

Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world’s largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead’s electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead’s facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead’s Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the “Best Demonstrated Available Technology” for processing EAF dust.

www.horsehead.net