Investment Banker Invasion: How Boutique Firms Dominated Hollywood’s Biggest Deals in 2025

Investment Banker Invasion: How Boutique Firms Dominated Hollywood’s Biggest Deals in 2025

Look at the biggest recent mergers and acquisitions in the worlds of entertainment, media and sports, from the record-setting $55 billion buyout of Elec­tronic Arts to the Skydance-Paramount merger and the dueling offers for Warner Bros. Discovery, and you’ll notice the same handful of names showing up again and again, often together in the same […]

The Funding File: The Biggest M&A and VC Deals in Media and Entertainment in 2025

This report is a partnership between WrapPRO and PitchBook, the go-to financial data and software platform that provides detailed information on private and public capital markets. What began as a year of stasis over uncertainty about a second Trump term, with dealmakers and their money sitting on the sidelines for several months, ended as those fears fell away with media and entertainment generating one of the most robust M&A waves in recent hi…

The biggest mergers and acquisitions of 2025

Deal-making rebounded sharply in 2025, reshaping the corporate landscape as companies pursued takeovers and strategic partnerships. According to Quartz, mergers and acquisitions activity surged during the year, approaching the record levels seen in 2021. Total global M&A value reached about $4.5 trillion—roughly 50% higher than in 2024 and the second-largest annual total on record, according to The Financial Times. Here are some of the biggest a…