$100-Million Infusion Puts Talent Firm in Position to Deal

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Like any top Hollywood agent, Jeff Berg is always looking to close a deal. On Tuesday, he sealed one of the biggest of his career by enticing a little-known Connecticut financier to invest about $100 million in Berg’s International Creative Management. Home to such stars as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster, ICM is… Read more »

Rizvi, Merrill Lynch finance recapitalisation of ICM

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US talent agency ICM has recapitalized as part of its expansion strategy in a deal financed by Connecticut investor Suhail Rizvi’s Rizvi Traverse Management and Merrill Lynch’s Asset Based Finance Group. Terms of the deal remain confidential. What is known, however, is that the deal will allow agency chief Jeff Berg to develop ICM’s international… Read more »