Adam Jaffe

Adam Jaffe is a Managing Director in Consumer Retail focused on Experiential, Leisure & Lifestyle. He joined the firm in 2010.

Adam has over 14 years of experience advising private, public, and private-equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, private capital raises, and other financial advisory assignments across sectors with a particular focus on site-based / experiential entertainment.

Select publicly announced, completed advisory transactions include:

• Grand Theatres and Amstar Cinemas on its sale to Santikos Entertainment
• Swingers on its $52 million growth equity raise
• Scene75 on its sale to Five Star Parks & Attractions
• Hollywood Bowl on its acquisition of Splitsville Entertainment
• Bow Tie on its sale of theatres to AMC Entertainment
• Puttshack on its $60 million growth equity raise
• Banijay on its $2.2 billion acquisition of EndemolShine Group
• Vivendi on its $3.4 billion sale of a 10% stake in UMG to a consortium led by Tencent
• IPIC on its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and $56 million sale to RSA
• MJR Digital Cinemas on its $152 million sale to Kinepolis
• Len Riggio on the sale of his 19% stake in Barnes & Noble’s $683 million sale to Elliott Management
• Moviehouse & Eatery on its sale to Cinepolis
• Movie Tavern on its $139 million sale to Marcus Theatres
• Cobb Theatres on its $185 million sale to Cinemex
• Santikos in the sale of its Houston properties to Regal
• Special Committee of NCM in connection with AMC matters
• Marcus Theatres on its $65 million acquisition of Wehrenberg Theatres
• Starplex Cinemas on its $172 million sale to AMC Theatres
• American Greetings in the $814 million go-private sale of the company to the Weiss Family (control shareholder)
• Office Depot on its $6.3 billion sale to Staples (terminated)
• Office Depot on its $1.2 billion acquisition of OfficeMax
• Sony on its $2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing

Adam lives in Westport, CT with his wife, three children and a French Bulldog.