Providing deal support
O&O has advised on over 50 major corporate and commercial deals providing advice on valuation, deal structuring and negotiation strategy.O&O utilises the latest techniques and theories to help clients, including advanced valuation and state of the art game theory techniques. O&O offers three types of deal support:
Corporate Deal Support
This has involved both the development of strategic advice to media and entertainment companies around specific acquisition identification and assessment, and the provision of commercial due diligence support both to corporate acquisition teams and leading private equity groups. O&O has also been involved in the structuring and negotiation of major joint ventures.Commercial Deal Support
This has focused on the buying and selling of key content rights licences and the negotiation of key distribution contracts. This has included support on key TV channel, website and radio network distribution contracts and the structuring of key content rights contracts involving TV programming, sports packages, feature films, animations, commercial sponsorship associations and gaming and betting deals. We help content owners understand developments in distribution and distributors understand content rights owners.Venture Initiation
This has targeted smaller start up and development opportunities offered by emerging technologies and changing consumer tastes and business models. O&O works with entrepreneurs, experts and investors to help start and develop new ventures taking small equity stakes in return for advice and expertise. O&O applies its own rigorous criteria to new venture proposals and only supports truly distinctive ideas where it feels it can add value.