Bernadette Coppola

Media & Entertainment

• Cosm, a leading immersive technology, media and entertainment company, in its multi-year partnership with:
  • the NBA that will feature a new live game viewing experience for fans
  • UFC that will produce and present live UFC Pay-Per-View events
  • the Cirque du Soleil, a world leader in live entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports to produce and present select live premium sports programming from across TNT Sports’ footprint in immersive 8K+ at its forthcoming venues
  • ESPN, bringing live sports events to upcoming venues, including NBA and NHL games, the U.S. Open tennis, and college sports, featuring football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, and softball
• Sagard Senior Lending Partners as a lender to WildBrain Ltd. in connection with a five-year $415 million senior secured credit facility consisting of a $375 million term loan and a $40 million revolving credit facility
• WEBTOON Entertainment in its $315 million initial public offering, at a $2.7 billion valuation
• The Topps Company in its carve-out sale of its sports and entertainment business line, which consists of its trading card business, to Fanatics, an online retailer of licensed sportswear, sports equipment, and merchandise
• Nexstar in its acquisition of The CW Network
• Abry Partners in its $100 million investment in HARTBEAT, Kevin Hart’s comedy-focused media and entertainment company
• Blackstone, a leading alternative investment manager, in its acquisition of Moonbug Entertainment, a global children’s entertainment company, through Blackstone’s next-generation media company Candle Media
• KKR in its strategic investment in PlayOn! Sports, a high school sports media and technology company, and PlayOn! Sports’ subsequent acquisition of GoFan
• Naver Corporation in its $600 million acquisition of Wattpad, which will combine Wattpad’s leading social storytelling platform with Naver’s WEBTOON, a leading global digital comics platform, and in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Poshmark (NASDAQ: POSH), a social e-commerce marketplace for new and secondhand style
• Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on the sale of Verizon Media to funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) for $5 billion. The carve-out allows Verizon Media to pursue growth areas of Internet and digital media while Verizon maintains a minority stake
• MRC (formerly Valence Media) and its portfolio company Billboard in its:
  
  • joint ventures with Penske Media Corp. in publishing and data matters
  • acquisition of the music-industry data, software and analytics business of Nielsen Holdings
  • minority stake in Fulwell 73, an Emmy-winning British independent production company involving James Corden
• STX Entertainment in its merger with Eros International (NYSE: EROS), a global entertainment company, and the subsequent sale to a consortium led by The Najafi Companies
• Horizon Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: HZAC) in its $1.95 billion business combination with Vivid Seats, a leading concert, sports and theater ticket marketplace
• iHeartMedia, Inc. and certain subsidiaries, one of the world’s leading global multi-platform media, entertainment, and data companies, in their Chapter 11 restructuring

Consumer Products & Services

• HanesBrands in its $1.2 billion sale of Champion to Authentic Brands Group
• Madison Dearborn Partners, alongside Tornante Company, in the sale of TDS Gift Cards, a provider of gift card processing and program management services, to Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD)
• Tornante and Madison Dearborn Partners-backed Bazooka Candy Brands, a portfolio of non-chocolate confectionary brands, in its sale to Apax
• Express, Inc. (NYSE: EXPR) in its transformative strategic partnership with WHP Global
• L Catterton in multiple consumer brands transactions, including its:
  
  • acquisition of a majority stake in BIRKENSTOCK Group
  • acquisition of Kodiak Cakes, manufacturer of frozen waffles and pancakes, oatmeal, baking mixes and snacking products, and subsequent marquee strategic partnership between Kodiak Cakes and actor and producer, Zac Efron
  • acquisition of BELLAMI Hair, a provider of hair extensions and haircare brands
• Chantecaille Inc., USA, a leading prestige beauty company, in its acquisition by Beiersdorf AG
• Butterfly Equity in its:
  
  • acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Company
  • investment in Chosen Foods, a producer of avocado-based food products
• TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, on its partnership with company management to acquire Crunch Fitness (Crunch)
• Macy’s, Inc. in connection with its $4 billion financing in response to impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic and liability management exercises. The transactions consist of a $2.8 billion ABL Facility and an additional $300 million bridge commitment secured by Macy’s inventory, and $1.3 billion bond offering secured by the company’s top mall assets and distribution centers.
• Fortress Credit Advisors LLC in its $282 million financing for the take-private acquisition of Perry Ellis International

Software & Services

• Thoma Bravo in its:
  
  • $100 million investment in Imply Data
  • acquisition of Calypso Technology, a cloud-enabled provider of front-to-back technology software services
  • $1.15 billion acquisition of Venafi, a cybersecurity company that develops software to secure and protect cryptographic keys and digital certificates
• Apax Funds in its:
  
  • acquisition of Infogain, a human-centered digital platform and software engineering company
  • acquisition of a majority stake in Herjavec Group
• Inovia Capital and Lion Capital in their investment in Snapcommerce, the message-driven mobile commerce platform

Healthcare

• GTCR-backed Resonetics in its carve-out acquisition of the medical business of Hutchinson Technology
• Revenue cycle management company in its commercial arrangement with a healthcare services company
• One of the largest private healthcare systems in the U.S. in its major IT outsourcing transaction in which a leading global IT services firm provided application development and maintenance services for critical applications that support client's global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system

Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.