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Credit Suisse has one of the most well-established and accomplished Media and Telecom practices in the world.

With dedicated investment banking professionals located in Credit Suisse's offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Singapore, the Group has advised the world's most important media and telecom companies on innovative financings, complex restructurings, and industry re-defining business combinations.

Our group covers of a variety of sub-sectors within the media and telecommunications industries including broadcasting, towers, cable, publishing, entertainment, incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), competitive local exchange carriers, (CLECs), Regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) and long distance.

We have advised GE/NBC, AT&T, Sony, Deutsche Telekom, Disney, Pixar, VNU, Primedia, BskyB, EchoStar, DirecTV, Telstra, Verizon, American Tower, SK Telecom, Charter, Bell Canada, TelMex, Vivendi and other public and private companies on transactions that have received numerous awards and public recognition.

The Group's banking professionals are supported around the world by experienced and expert capital markets professionals in high yield, equities and investment grade, as well as experts in derivatives and complex structured financing in particular for film and music libraries.

Some important transactions include:

  • $882 million of IPO of National CineMedia
  • $13.7 billion acquisition of Univision by Madison Dearborn, Providence Equity, TH Lee, TPG and Saban Capital
  • The McClatchy Company's $6.5 billion acquisition of Knight Ridder
  • $11.2 billion leveraged buyout of VNU by a private equity consortium
  • $16.4 billion sale of Intelsat to BC Partners

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