NEWS
MAY 2020
Fashion Brand: Following our appointment to handle the sale of a profitable iconic children’s fashion brand, our client has signed a binding contract for the sale of the entire business.
APRIL 2020
Province Brands of Canada: Hired by Province Brands of Canada to assist with their growth plans. Province Brands of Canada is a Canadian beverage technology company that has created a new way to brew beer from most plant materials. Please see here a recent TechCrunch article about the business.
MARCH 2020
Time-To-Find: Hired by Time-To-Find to assist with their growth plans. Time-To-Find is a watch buying comparison site for the luxury Swiss watch market; a disruptor that uses a reverse marketplace model.
JANUARY 2020
Promotigo: Hired by Promotigo to assist with their growth plans. Promotigo is a global platform for enterprises to launch and deliver sales promotions at scale. The platform is used by Unilever, McDonalds, Starbucks and other global brands.
DECEMBER 2019
Zig Zag Productions: Hired by Zig Zag Productions to assist with their growth plans. Zig Zag Productions is an awarding-winning 20-year old profitable independent TV production company.
NOVEMBER 2019
Please see here our November 2019 News Update.
OCTOBER 2019
Glue: Hired by Glue to assist with their growth plans. Glue is a smart lock subscription business which is integrated with ecommerce and logistic partners, solving the last mile delivery issue.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Alternative Business Funding: Hired by Alternative Business Funding to assist with their growth plans. Alternative Business Funding is a comparison site for business loans.
Publisher Arts: Commenced work on a Business Development project. Publisher Arts is a video content marketplace where online publishers can source and acquire video content.
Stagedoor: Following our earlier appointment to assist Stagedoor with their capital raise, Stagedoor successfully closes a funding round with Seedrs, the crowdfunding site.
AUGUST 2019
Fashion Brand: Hired by a profitable iconic children’s fashion brand to handle the sale of the business.
JULY 2019
Please see here our July 2019 News Update.
JUNE 2019
Money&Co: Rehired by Money&Co to handle their capital raise. Money&Co is a P2P business lender led by Nicola Horlick.
MAY 2019
Stagedoor: Hired by Stagedoor to handle their capital raise. Stagedoor is a digital and comprehensive digital theatre guide and is “the digital home of theatre”.
APRIL 2019
Oriel: Commenced work on a Corporate Development project for an AdTech startup.
MARCH 2019
Please see here our March 2019 News Update.
Investment Offers: Secured over £70m of investment offers in Q1 2019, with two term sheets totalling over £7m of investment signed during that same period.
FEBRUARY 2019
Hopster: Hired by Hopster to assist with their growth plans. Hopster is an award winning, ad-free, kids TV and entertainment app.
DECEMBER 2018
TV Format Deal: We sourced, negotiated and closed a TV format deal with Fizz which is part of Banijay Group, the leading global production and distribution company; please see here for more information.
NOVEMBER 2018
Media Leaders Summit 2018: Steve Lazarus chaired two panel sessions at the Media Leaders Summit 2018, one of the leading trade events in the Media/Tech/M&A sector.
OCTOBER 2018
Lazarus Consulting Wins Award: Lazarus Consulting named “Most Dynamic in Corporate Development Services” by Global Business Insight Awards 2018; please see here for more information.
Oriel: Hired by Oriel, a tech startup, to assist with their growth plans.
Please see here for our October 2018 News Update.
SEPTEMBER 2018
We sourced and closed a commercial partnership between TMT Finance and Dow Jones’ The Wall Street Journal; see here.
AUGUST 2018
Together Group announce their launch plans; SmartFrame announce completion of their funding round.
JULY 2018
Together Group: Hired by Together Group to assist with their capital raise.
JUNE 2018
Hired by a leading Out-Of-Home advertising business to provide Business Development services.
MAY 2018
TMT Finance: Hired by TMT Finance to assist with their domestic and international growth plans; please see here for more information.
Please see here for our May 2018 News Update.
MARCH 2018
Hopster: Hired by Hopster to assist with their growth plans. Hopster is an award winning, ad-free, kids TV and entertainment app.
JANUARY 2018
Money&Co: We closed a £1m investment into Money&Co from a UK strategic investor and we have been retained to handle their follow-on capital raise; please see here for more information.
DECEMBER 2017
Media Leaders Summit 2017: Steve Lazarus chaired a Media Financing session at the Media Leaders Summit 2017, the leading event in the TMT Finance space. Key trends and opportunities in media company financing were explored with an experienced set of panelists.
NOVEMBER 2017
Harkable: Launch of the sales process for this creative social media agency.
OCTOBER 2017
Please see here for our October 2017 News Update.
SEPTEMBER 2017
Infinity Creative Media: We closed a strategic investment into Infinity Creative Media by a private UK investor.
AUGUST 2017
Dunrobin Highland Distillery: Launch of the capital raise extensively covered by both national & trade press (including The Times & The Scotsman); please see here for more information.
JULY 2017
Zymplify: Zymplify secures £1m in investment; please see here for more information.
JUNE 2017
Please see here for our June 2017 News Update.
Family Traveller: Hired to work with Family Traveller on the capital raise supporting their international expansion plans. Launched in the UK in 2013 and now live in Germany and the US, Family Traveller is a digital-first media business with a unique focus on the large and growing family travel market. For more information please see this blog.
APRIL 2017
Money&Co: Hired by Money&Co to handle their capital raise. Money&Co, launched by Nicola Horlick in 2013, is a crowdfunding business lender that has financed 38 loans with a value of £10 million. Nicola has successfully built a number of UK fund management businesses and, more recently, was one of the co-founders of an extremely profitable private equity firm. For more information please see this blog.
Dunrobin Highland Distillery: Hired by the founders of this whisky and gin distillery business to handle their capital raise. The business is located in the historic grounds of Scotland’s Dunrobin Castle. For more information please see this blog.
MARCH 2017
TVR: Hired by this iconic British sports car brand to assist with their growth plans.
FEBRUARY 2017
Please see here for our February 2017 News Update.
SmartFrame: Hired to assist with the roll-out of the SmartFrame technology, which has been created by Pixelrights, a leading digital platform for photographers. SmartFrame is a patent-pending interactive, secure and trackable online image technology which helps image users to capture data and improve monetisation and engagement. For more information please see this blog.
JANUARY 2017
CHF Media Group: We have been hired by CHF Media Group to handle their capital raise. Cosgrove Hall Films made the original Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The Wind in the Willows and earned a number of BAFTA’s and Emmy’s; the reformed CHF Media Group now produces the acclaimed Pip Ahoy! animation series plus other shows in production.
SMTA Limited: The creators of the hit gameshow format “Sell Me The Answer” have hired us to help them exploit two new gameshow formats that they have created.
DECEMBER 2016
ABAKA: ABAKA have launched a digital personal financial advisor powered by Artificial Intelligence and we have been hired to help with their growth plans, which includes a Business Development brief and a Capital Raising brief.
Appointed Representative: Entered into a formal Appointed Representative agreement with Bluehone Investors LLP, who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
NOVEMBER 2016
Please see here for our November 2016 News Update.
T-Shirt Booth: Appointed by T-Shirt Booth to handle their fundraise. T-Shirt Booth are an e-commerce business with a strong charity angle, backed by the well established Louis Kennedy business who have to date raised over £200m for charities. For more information please see this blog.
SEPTEMBER 2016
Zymplify: Zymplify (previously known as digiShare360) is a multichannel engagement marketing platform offering a SaaS and Managed Service with an impressive client list that includes SMEs and some bigger names such as LG and Harley Davidson. They are a disruptive MarketingTech business saving time and hassle by aggregating all marketing needs in one place – their SaaS service is priced to disrupt the other players in the high growth Marketing Automation sector. For more information please see this blog.
AUGUST 2016
Infinity Creative Media: Hired by Infinity Creative Media to assist them with funding for their latest TV series called The Art Show. The Art Show is filmed in over 20 locations across the globe with world-class artists, collectors and industry insiders, celebrating art in all its different forms. The 8 x 1 hour high definition magazine series was broadcast on Sky Arts in 2017. For more information please see this blog.
Bluehone Investors LLP: Entered into a co-operation agreement with Bluehone Investors LLP which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
JULY 2016
Sell Me The Answer: We announced the re-launch of the Sell Me The Answer television format in the UK, the renewal of the international format distribution deal with DRG and the continued success of the format overseas. For more information please see this blog.
APRIL 2016
Chored: Appointed by Chored to assist with their growth plans. Chored is a PropertyTech business focused on the house-sharing sector.
MARCH 2016
Rational Group: Retained by Rational Group, a leading B2B and B2C international money transfer business, to strike impactful and mutually beneficial strategic partnerships. Rational Group own two brands, RationalFX and Xendpay. For more information please see this blog.
FEBRUARY 2016
Sound Diplomacy: Hired by Sound Diplomacy, a leading international music export and conference development agency and a Canadian government office, to help a select number of Canadian companies in the mobile sector to network in Europe (including attendance at the MWC in Barcelona this month).
European Business Press Association: We were very honoured to have been asked by the European Business Press Association to deliver a keynote speech on the challenges facing their industry, especially from mobile and social media, and the ways in which to address these to safeguard the industry’s future. The event was held at The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones European HQ.
