M&A Deal Summary

Fox Acquires Lighthouse

On June 16, 2025, Fox acquired media company Lighthouse from Whalar

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Fox’s 3rd transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is Fox’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-06-16
Target Lighthouse
Sector Media
Buyer(s) Fox
Sellers(s) Whalar
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Lighthouse

London, United Kingdom
Lighthouse offers creators a space to co-create, connect, and lead the businesses shaping creative culture. Lighthouse is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Fox

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 2018
Sector Media
Employees10,400
Revenue 14.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Fox produces and distributes compelling news, sports, and entertainment content through its iconic domestic brands including FOX News, FOX Sports, the FOX Network, and the FOX Television Stations. These brands hold cultural significance with consumers and commercial importance for distributors and advertisers. The breadth and depth of Fox footprint allow to deliver content that engages and informs audiences, develops deeper consumer relationships and creates more compelling product offerings. FOX maintains an impressive track record of news, sports, and entertainment industry success that will shape our strategy to capitalize on current strengths and invest in new initiatives. Fox was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 9
Sector: Media M&A 3 of 6
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2025 M&A 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-02-10 Red Seat Ventures

New York, New York, United States

Red Seat Ventures is a creator economy that powers talent across a range of genres as they build their direct-to-consumer media businesses. Red Seat Ventures is based in New York, New York.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-06-19 Caliente TV

Mexico City, Mexico

Caliente TV is a Mexican sports broadcasting platform that provides live matches, league coverage, and sports-related content through digital and television channels. Caliente TV is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Whalar

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Marketing
DESCRIPTION

Whalar is a global creator commerce company enabling creators, brands, and a leading social platform to work better together to drive business growth for all. The company help brands stay culturally relevant through strategic creator relationships that deliver entertaining and must-see content at scale. Whalar is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Media M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-17 C Talent

Los Angeles, California, United States

C Talent is a disabled-led talent management and consultancy company that represents high-profile Deaf and Disabled talent. The company works to place disabled talent into all roles, not just disability-specific roles – normalizing disabled people being experts in subjects beyond disability. It has placed talent in thousands of projects with companies and brands such as Savage X Fenty, Hulu, Twitter, About-Face, Disney, Google Pixel, Subaru, Nike, and many more. C Talent provides Disability & Access consulting globally, building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation by helping companies become accessible beyond compliance, some of its current and previous clients include; Virgin Media, Twitter, International Paralympic Committee, NBC, The LEGO Group, and GIPHY to name a few. C Talent is based in Los Angeles, California.

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