{"id":2290440,"date":"2026-02-20T04:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2290440"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:45:49","slug":"wasserman-retains-investment-bank-as-sale-process-kicks-into-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wasserman-retains-investment-bank-as-sale-process-kicks-into-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Retains Investment Bank as Sale Process Kicks Into Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The sale of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0163353\/\">Wasserman<\/a> is shifting into high gear, with the management powerhouse retaining the investment bank Moelis &amp; Co. to advise on the transaction, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1151586\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2680998\/\">Casey Wasserman<\/a> in 2002, the firm is a rollup of a number of agency, management and marketing businesses, with a particularly strong presence in the sports sector and the music business. It also owns the management-production firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0214340\/\">Brillstein Entertainment Partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moelis, as it happens, advised Brillstein in its sale to Wasserman three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Wasserman announced the sale of the company he founded in a Feb. 13 memo, telling staff that he would step aside to focus his efforts on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which he leads. The move came after the company lost high-profile clients like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0139125\/\">Chappell<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10910949\/\">Roan<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16682033\/\">John Summit<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13321138\/\">Laufey<\/a> among several dozen others. (Also out now is Imagine Dragons, though sources say the band\u2019s decision predated the Wasserman controversy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of Wasserman is shifting into high gear, with the management powerhouse retaining the investment bank Moelis &amp; Co. to advise on the transaction, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Founded by Casey Wasserman in 2002, the firm is a rollup of a number of agency, management and marketing businesses, with a particularly strong presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2290440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wasserman-Retains-Investment-Bank-as-Sale-Process-Kicks-Into-Gear.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290440\/revisions\/2290442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}