Reed Phillips

Biography

Reed is President of Oaklins International, the leading middle-market global investment bank, ranked #1 worldwide by Mergermarket for middle-market M&A transactions. Oaklins has 800 investment bankers in 45 countries. In 1996, Reed co-founded Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips, the TMT specialist firm in NYC, and has been an investment banker for 27 years during which time he has completed over 200 M&A transactions with companies such as ABRY Partners, Conde Nast, Dow Jones, Infogroup, Mergermarket, News Corporation, The New York Times Company, Shamrock Holdings, Time Inc., Televisa, TPG Growth and WPP.

He is frequently called on to comment on media and technology M&A by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, the Financial Times, the New York Post and Bloomberg TV. He was awarded "Media Deal of the Year" by Mergers & Acquisitions in 2007. He holds an A.B. from Duke University.

About Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips; Oaklins International, USA

Oaklins International is the leading middle-market global investment bank, ranked #1 worldwide by Mergermarket for middle-market M&A transactions under $500 million. Oaklins has 800 investment bankers in 45 countries. It covers 16 market sectors, with TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) being the largest.

Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips, the TMT specialist firm of Oaklins, is based in NYC and has 37 professionals. It has completed over 300 transactions in the past 23 years with companies such as Bonnier, Cengage, Conde Nast, Deloitte, Gannett, Havas, Ipsos, Mergermarket, Microsoft, News Corporation, The New York Times, Oracle, Publicis, Reed Exhibitions, S&P Global, Thomson Reuters, Time Inc., TripAdvisor, WideOrbit and WPP.