Over the course of his 25 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, education and financial sectors and worked on over $300 billion of transactions.

Representative experience includes advising: Thomson Reuters on the sale of Refinitiv to LSE for $27 billion and acquisitions of HighQ and Confirmation Inc.; CBS’s Board Special Committee on its $48 billion combination with Viacom; Moody’s on the acquisition of RMS for $2 billion and sale of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services to Equistone Partners; Factset on the $1.9 billion acquisition of CUSIP from S&P Global; Transunion on the $1.74 billion sale of its healthcare unit to Clearlake and nThrive; Daily Mail and General Trust on the sales of Hobsons to PowerSchool and Starfish to EAB for $410 million and Genscape to Verisk for $364 million; Cornerstone on the $200 million acquisition of SumTotal from Skillsoft (pending); Investment Metrics on its $500 million sale to Confluence; Houghton Mifflin on its $349 million sale of HMH Books and Media to Newscorp; Time Warner Cable on its $79 billion combination with Charter Communications; Thomson Reuters on the sale of a 55% stake in its F&R business at a $20 billion valuation to Blackstone; Axioma on its $850 million combination with Deutsche Boerse’s STOXX index subsidiary and simultaneous investment by General Atlantic; KKR and Weld North on the sale of Weld North’s K12 Curriculum Software Business to Silverlake; CEB (Corporate Executive Board) on its $3.3 billion sale to Gartner and acquisition of Evanta; Entercom Communications on the $4 billion Reverse Morris Trust with CBS Radio; North Island on its $625 million equity investment into Virtu Financial and the $1.2 billion acquisition of KCG by Virtu; Pandora on SiriusXM's $480 million preferred equity investment; UCG Holdings LP on its $650 million sale of OPIS to IHS Markit; JMI Equity and Sirius Decisions on its combination with Forrester Research; 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, $2.1 billion 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; MSCI on its $1.6 billion acquisition of Riskmetrics; 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 Yale School of Music’s Board of Advisors and the Board of Governors of Mannes College for Music, a division of the New School University.