Jim Christian is a Partner at Centerview and has spent his career advising clients on a full range of complex strategic and M&A matters, including buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, special committee assignments, shareholder activism defense, restructurings and minority close-outs, across a variety of industry sectors with a focus on Media and Entertainment.
Selected assignments include advising Topgolf Callaway Brands on its announced intention to separate into two independent companies via a spin-off of Topgolf, the Special Committee of Paramount in its announced $23 billion merger with Skydance Media, the Special Committee of Endeavor Group Holdings on its $25 billion announced take-private by Silver Lake, Disney on its activist defense against Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners and various strategic matters, Chernin Entertainment on its acquisition of Red Arrow from ProSieben and ~$500 million debt and equity financing to form The North Road Company, AT&T on its activist defense against Elliott Management and other strategic matters, CBS’s Board Special Committee on its $48 billion combination with Viacom; the Special Committee of Pandora Media on its $3.5 billion sale to Liberty / SiriusXM, the Special Committee of HSNi on its $2.6 billion sale to Liberty Interactive Corp, the Board of Directors of Time Warner Cable on its $79 billion sale to Comcast (withdrawn) and subsequent sale to Charter Communications, Ralph Lauren on various strategic matters, GE on the announced separation of its Healthcare business and the merger of its Oil & Gas business with Baker Hughes, Newell Rubbermaid on its $13 billion acquisition of Jarden Corporation, New Mountain Capital on the sale of Deltek to Thoma Bravo, AvalonBay on its joint-acquisition with Equity Residential of Archstone from Lehman Brothers Holdings, the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of TNS Inc. on its sale to Siris Capital, EarthLink on its acquisitions of ITC^DeltaCom and One Communications and advising the largest unsecured creditors group in the General Growth Properties Chapter 11 process.
Mr. Christian holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. from Harvard College.