Media & Entertainment
We help clients worldwide dare to be great amidst continued change by strengthening operating fundamentals and helping to plot a course toward a dynamic and competitive future.
What sets us apart is our experience to provide category defining media and entertainment expertise in more than 16 sub-sectors of the broad M&E landscape along with functional know-how and hands-on industry expertise in a broad range of services including Strategy, Business Transformation, Transactions and Restructuring. Our senior, on-the-ground teams use proprietary tools to provide innovative, yet practical, insights and implementation.
Industry Sub-Sectors
- Streaming & DTC
- Video games & esports
- Gambling/iGambling
- Entertainment supply chain
- Production hubs
- Publishing + Digital Media
- Theatrical exhibitors
- Filmed Exhibitors
- Print & Direct Marketing
- Music
- Networks & Broadcasting
- Advertising
- Sports
- Live events
- Education & Ed tech
- Radio & Podcasting
Specialized Services for Media Companies Include
Growth Strategy
To enable the growth which stakeholders demand, our M&E industry team leverages deep knowledge of various...
To enable the growth which stakeholders demand, our M&E industry team leverages deep knowledge of various sub sectors to provide holistic, smart-growth planning tools to anticipate and capitalize on value enhancing opportunities. Today, more than ever, our clients ask us to address new product and market entry and related issues including:
- New market entry planning: To answer questions of where, when and how to enter new markets
- New product strategies and launch: To define winning product strategies that drive growth in today’s attention economy we understand what attracts consumers’ attention and utilize customized consumer preference studies and product adoption experience to identify winning strategies
- Adjacencies: Using quantitative and qualitative insights to prioritize opportunities among the array of sub-markets allows us to identify where to expand and what it takes to win in adjacent industry sectors
Business Transformation
The need for transformation drives all segments of the M&E industry, and we have developed specific solutions...
The need for transformation drives all segments of the M&E industry, and we have developed specific solutions that tailor transformation programs to the needs of entertainment and creative industries, including:
Profit Cube™ enhanced decision-making: Our proprietary analytical framework increases insight into the factors that drive profit margins and those that diminish them. The Profit Cube framework promotes informed decision-making to foster growth in profits (not merely revenue), new customer and content acquisition strategies, customer funnel, cross and up-selling as well as many other factors that maximize higher customer lifetime value.
Operational efficiency for creative organizations: We design operating models and organizational efficiencies that reset the needs of media and entertainment companies.
- We pay attention to both commercial and creative priorities that allow both to operate in unison.
- We also focus on third-party spend and out-sourcing opportunities to optimize for today’s needs and those of tomorrow.
- FTI designs up-to-date technology systems specifically designed for creative organizations and companies with attention economy products
Transaction Advisory
We routinely use our deep industry experience to advise on: Commercial Diligence (including market and competitive...
We routinely use our deep industry experience to advise on: Commercial Diligence (including market and competitive assessment), Operational Diligence, Financial Diligence / QoE, IT / Tech / Cyber Diligence, and Valuation.
Investment Banking
We provide Industry infused and strategically focused investment banking whether to accelerate growth by acquiring...
We provide Industry infused and strategically focused investment banking whether to accelerate growth by acquiring a competitor, deliver liquidity to shareholders by selling all or a portion of the company, or raise debt or equity capital to execute growth initiatives, companies must pursue strategic or financial transactions. Our clients rely on the industry expertise and extensive transaction experience of FTI Capital Advisors (FTICA) for global mid-market M&A, raising private capital and distressed or special situations that require a transaction. We advise on a wide range of transactions and leverage our C-suite relationships and capital markets experience to ensure efficient, value-creating outcomes.
Restructuring
FTI has been the world’s largest restructuring advisor for than last 15 years.
FTI has been the world’s largest restructuring advisor for than last 15 years. Combining our extensive media and entertainment industry experience and operational expertise, FTI assists companies and their financial partners in the sector with differentiated capabilities in times of stress and distress as we are able to provide category leading restructuring capabilities with industry specific insights that make restructuring decisions as optimized as possible. Our media and entertainment restructuring capabilities include:
- Representing all categories of stakeholders both in-court and out-of-court
- Special Situations Investment Banking
- Dynamic restructuring re-emergence and industry leading post-emergence business planning for success
Meet Our Experts

Philip Schuman
Senior Managing Director, Leader of Media & Entertainment
Los Angeles, CA

Francesco Di Ianni
Senior Managing Director
Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Punt
Senior Managing Director
Los Angeles, CA

Jose Cepeda
Senior Managing Director
New York, NY

Garazi Goia
Senior Managing Director
London, United Kingdom

Justin Eisenband
Senior Managing Director
Miami, FL

Javier Muñoa
Senior Managing Director
Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates

Juan Rio
Senior Managing Director
San Francisco, CA