Media
Our media team assists clients with a
comprehensive range of financial advisory services to help them
achieve their targets and aspirations. We offer our clients an
integrated approach with a single point of contact for consistency
and peace of mind. We are proactive in our approach to work, and
are proud of the passion and enthusiasm we put into every project.
We focus our services in three primary areas of the media industry,
namely:
- film and TV production and distribution;
- publishing, conferences and exhibitions;
- marketing and advertising services.
We offer solutions and advice in the following service
areas:
- internal, external and royalty audits
- business risk services and corporate governance
- corporate finance services including disposals, mergers and
acquisitions, MBOs / MBIs, reporting accountant, valuations,
operations and post deal services, private equity and funding, due
diligence, and flotations and initial public offerings;
- tax services including corporate tax, VAT and employer
solutions
Our involvement in the sector is extensive: we are members of
the Association of Exhibition Organisers (AEO), Periodical
Publishers Association (PPA), PACT, and the Film Council and work
with them on emerging industry issues; we annually attend MIPCOM,
MIPTV, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Lions Festival and MIDEM.
We understand the issues facing the sector and provide regular
commentary and financial benchmarking surveys. Our latest report on
IFRS in the media sector was produced in March 2010,
click here to read.
In October 2009, Christine Corner, Media Partner, chaired a
webinar on funding you TV production in tougher times and making
the most of your IP. The panel consisted of Peter Bazalgette,
Louise Pederson (All3Media), Justin Thomson-Glover (Artists
Studio). Click
here to watch the webinar in full.
We've teamed up with the Economist Intelligence Unit to produce
the Disruption and Opportunity, today's challenges for media
business models report which examines issues around the resilience
and robustness of business models in the sector over the last 18
months and how they may fare in the future. Click
here to read the report.
As part of Grant Thornton's Entrepreneur Diary series, Alex
Connock, CEO of factual media company Ten Alps, shares his insight
into how the boss of a leading media company deals with knockbacks,
big wins and the daily grind.
Click here to read Alex's posts on industry developments and
general challenges for the sector.
For further details of our services, please contact Mark
Henshaw, Partner, on +44 (0)20 7383 5100, or e-mail: mark.henshaw@gtuk.com.