Sometimes, external funding is required to enable a business to grow organically or make acquisitions; equally, management teams sometimes require access to private equity to buy in to established enterprises and shareholders wish to effect trade sales to financial buyers.

Mark Bishop Associates LLP is well placed to effect introductions enabling these objectives to be met. We have access to the following sources of funds:

• Private equity firms with a stated interest in the media and funds available for investment
• Venture capital providers specialising in providing start-up and growth-phase investment to companies in the sector
• High net worth individuals who have successfully built up and sold media businesses and now have funds to invest, often combined with sharing their expertise as non-executive directors
• Sympathetic banks willing to work with good management teams in providing suitably structured debt finance.

Finally, if you are interested in being notified of investment opportunities in growing media businesses – many of them offering attractive tax breaks – or would like to be introduced to private equity firms with a view to investing in the sector, please contact us for a confidential, no-obligation discussion.