Bio

Over the course of his 23 year career in media and investment banking, Alex Glantz has established himself as a leading advisor to a broad group of global companies across the media, information, services, technology and education sectors and worked on over $175 billion of transactions. Representative experience includes advising: Time Warner Cable on its proposed $79 billion combination with Charter Communications (Pending); UCG Holdings LP on its $650 million sale of OPIS to IHS (Pending); Clear Channel Outdoor on its $566 million sale of various assets to Lamar Advertising and independent operators; Informa PLC on its $375 million acquisition of Hanley Wood; CBS Outdoor (Outfront Media) on the $690 million acquisition of Van Wagner; Permira and All3Media on its $930 million sale to a joint venture of Discovery Communications and Liberty Global; Thomson Reuters on a range of transactions including the sales of Thomson Learning for $7.8 billion to Apax and OMERS, Thomson Healthcare for $1.4 billion to Veritas Capital and Barbri to Leeds Equity, Reuters on its $18 billion sale to Thomson as well as the merger of Instinet and Island and its $1.8 billion sale of Instinet; Reed Elsevier on its $5.8 billion acquisition of Harcourt General, $2.1billion on-sale of Harcourt Higher Education to Thomson and $4.1 billion acquisition of Choicepoint; IHS on the $500 million acquisition of Seismic Micro Technology, $200 million acquisition of Global Insight, and its IPO, private placement and secondary offering; Wolters Kluwer on its $378 million acquisition of Waverly, $260 million acquisition of Plenum Publishing and $200 million acquisition of Ovid Technologies; Mcgraw-Hill on its $212 million sale of TV Broadcasting assets to Scripps, Sony on Sony ATV’s $375 million acquisition of Famous Music from Viacom and Sony and Time Warner on their joint investment in CDnow; Warner Music Group on its $550 million IPO, Meredith Corporation on its $350 million acquisition of G&J USA Magazines from Bertelsmann; Laureate Education on the $3.4 billion sale of the company to an investor group; Advent, Bain Capital and Berkshire Partners on the $1.2 billion acquisition of Skillsoft; Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital and Blackstone on the $1.8 billion acquisition of Houghton Mifflin, Providence Equity on its $1.8 billion acquisition of Blackboard, Knowledge Universe and TCV on the sale of Embanet Compass to Pearson for $650 million, SEB Educacional on its sale to Pearson for $497 million, VSS and Hgcapital on the $660 million sale of SHL to Corporate Executive Board, Permira on the $440 million acquisition of Renaissance Learning, Nielsen on its $1.6 billion initial public offering. Mr. Glantz joined Centerview in 2013 to co-head the firm's media practice. Prior to joining Centerview, Mr. Glantz was a Managing Director and Co-Head of North American Media at Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2000, Mr. Glantz worked at Credit Suisse First Boston and Bertelsmann. Mr. Glantz holds a B.A. from Yale, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Mannes the New College for Music, a division of the New School.