Advisor to Global Media Localization Group

Our team advised a leading global technology enabled media localization group (“Company”), on its growth capital raise from one of the largest global technology focused venture capital firm with headquarters in Japan.

The Company is a market leader in media localization with leading-edge technology providing dubbing, subtitling and media engineering services in over 80 languages. An innovative trailblazer with grounded core values in an ever-changing industry, the Company uses its sophisticated in-house technology for all of its product and service offerings. The Company operates 35 local facilities globally, spanning a network of fully owned sites across 30 countries in Europe, Asia and The Americas - offering end-to-end solutions (for e.g. captioning, subtitling, dubbing) and fast turnaround services for OTT players. It offers services to prominent companies, broadcasters, all major film studios, OTT and streaming platforms such Netflix, Hulu, Turner, PCCW, Sony, Disney, HBO, BBC, and many more global players.

The investor is the world’s largest technology venture capital fund that invests in innovative and disruptive technology companies. It is part of a large multinational Japanese company and specializes in growth capital investments in companies that are building solutions of tomorrow. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps.

Our team served as the exclusive advisor to the Company. The deal involved investment in both preference shares and common shares. We helped the shareholders evaluate from two strong offers received during the process by clearly highlighting the long-term impact: both financially and strategically to grow future business. There was significant effort put in by the teams during the negotiation process to ascertain favorable arrangement for our client. We were able to negotiate some very advantageous commercial and legal points with the buyer. This led to an outcome that was not only beneficial but also protective of the client’s core interests. The client was impressed with the outcome our team achieved in such a short period of time.

Note: This transaction was executed by the Mergerstone leadership team before the incorporation of the company.