Media
Client Transaction

Size
(US$MM)
Year
Riverdeep Advised Riverdeep, the fastest growing education and consumer software company in the US on its public-to-private transaction $375 2003
Havas Advertising (a) Purchase of Schmitter Media Agentur, a leading
independent media planning and buying agency in Germany		 NA 2002
Havas Advertising (a) Tender offer for all outstanding shares of Tempus, a UK based global media buying group. Offer withdrawn following Sept. 11, 2001 events $800 2001
Havas Advertising (a) Purchase of substantially all the assets of Hook Media,a leading on-line media services Company based in Boston, MA N/A 2001
Media Planning Group /
Corp. Alba, BBVA, BSCH (a)		 Sale of a 55% interest in Media Planning Group
to Havas Advertising. Client exchanged became the largest strategic shareholder in the world’s #4 advertising network		 $500 2000-
01
Palm Pictures Capital raising for music and film distribution start-up led by Chris Blackwell $15 2002
Casa Editorial El Tiempo Debt restructuring advisory to the leading media conglomerate in Colombia (newspapers, magazines,television, book of the month
club, etc.)		 $100 2001
Patagon Investment by VB&P in Patagon and subsequent sale of stake NA 2001
Cisneros Television Group Merger of Cisneros Television Group and El Sitio to create Claxson Interactive, a media conglomerate with interests in pay television networks, radio, television and Internet $600 2000
Cisneros Television Group Creation of Playboy TV International, a joint venture with Playboy Enterprises to develop pay television networks outside North America $100 1999
Cisneros Group Sale Sale of a 21.84% stake in Telcel, Venezuela’s largest wireless services provider to BellSouth $617 2004
Imagen Satelital Financial advisor for 144A Bond Issue $80 1998
Cisneros Group of
Companies (“CGC”)		 Contribution of Cisneros media assets to Ibero-
American Media Partners, a US$500MM fund between CGC and Hicks Muse		 $250 1998
*Athelera acted as financial advisor in the transaction