James Butcher

James Butcher is a Managing Director in Technology. He joined the firm in 2024.

James has 18 years of investment banking experience, representing clients across the Media & Technology sectors on a variety of assignments, including sell-side, buy-side, divestiture and merger transactions, as well as debt and equity financing and restructurings.

Prior to joining Solomon Partners, James was a Managing Director in the Media & Technology sector at Moelis, acting as a trusted advisor to large corporations and mid-market companies, as well as financial sponsors, on a variety of transactions.

James has recently focused on the Information Services and Business-to-Business (B2B) subsectors, where his experience includes:

• Fiscal Note Inc.’s sale of Board.org to Falfurrias’s Executive Platforms
• Omnicom Group, Inc.’s acquisition of Ascential plc’s Flywheel Digital
• Informa plc’s acquisition of Industry Dive
• EDO’s sale of a minority stake to Shamrock Capital
• Permira’s investment in GWI
• TheStreet, Inc.’s sale of BoardEx and The Deal to Euromoney plc
• Sale of Autonomous Research to Alliance Bernstein
• Sale of Clarion Events to Blackstone
• Sale of Advanstar to UBM plc
• Sale of Vision7 International to BlueFocus
• Sale Ascential plc’s CAP Automotive to Montagu Private Equity

Broader Media & Technology transactions include:

• CWT’s sale to Amex GBT (pending)
• Expedia Group, Inc.’s capital raise, including preferred equity investment by Apollo and Silver Lake
• Expedia Group, Inc.’s sales of Bodybuilding.com, Alice and Classic Vacation
• Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc.’s merger with Expedia Group, Inc.
• Omnicom Group, Inc’s proposed merger with Publicis Groupe, S.A. (withdrawn)
• PLBY Group, Inc.’s acquisition of Honey Birdette
• Spark Networks, Inc.’s debt refinancing
• Funny or Die’s sale of a minority stake to AMC Networks, Inc.
• 1 Media SE’s acquisition of a controlling interest in Collective Digital Studio and merger with Studio71
• The Street, Inc’s sale to TheMaven, Inc.
• The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc
• IAC/InteractiveCorp’s sale of PriceRunner to NS Intressenter
• Iflix’s capital raise