Online Media and Technology
JEGI combines deep interactive expertise with broad relationships across major diversified media companies, resulting in a leading position in M&A transactions in Online Media & Technology.
Online Media M&A has been driven by a competitive mix of interactive companies, major media groups, marketing services firms and private equity investors, which maximizes the value of JEGI's extensive media industry expertise. JEGI serves companies leading the many facets of the online marketplace, including:
- Content and publishing;
- Interactive ad networks;
- Lead generation portals; and
- The enabling technologies and services that create and deliver advertising across the web.
With Tolman Geffs, the former CEO of Internet Broadcasting Systems, joining the firm in 2004, JEGI has maximized value for online media and technology companies in sales to major media companies, larger technology groups, and private equity firms. Recent successful interactive transactions include:
- A strategic investment in Intercept Interactive's Undertone Networks, a premier online ad network, by JMI Equity;
- The sale of FierceMarkets, a leading online B2B media company, to Questex Media;
- The sale of Money-Media, a leading online B2B information provider for the asset management industry, to Pearson;
- The sale of Seevast's Moniker, the leader in domain name asset management, to Oversee.net;
- The sale of iParenting, a leading publisher of online parent communities, to The Walt Disney Company;
- The sale of KnowledgeStorm, a leading online search resource for IT professionals, to TechTarget;
- The sale of VentureDirect, a leading provider of online lead generation and customer acquisition services, to Plattform Holding;
- The sale of Healia, a consumer health search engine, to Meredith;
- A $50+ million investment in Gorilla Nation Media by Great Hill Partners;
- The sale of TechnologyGuide.com, a provider of proprietary Internet content sites for mobile technology products, to TechTarget;
- The acquisition of b2b lead generation group BuyerZone by Reed Business Information; and
- The sale of Gorilla Nation Media’s Quizilla.com, a leading teen portal, to MTV Networks (Viacom).
For more information, contact Managing Directors Tolman Geffs (tolmang@jegi.com), David Clark (davidc@jegi.com), or Scott Peters (scottp@jegi.com), all at 212-754-0710.
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