OUR FIRM

Founded in 2012, Qualia Legacy Advisors is a boutique advisory firm with a singular focus on entertainment and media. QLA provides investment banking services, corporate advisory services, restructuring advice, and operational turnaround services, to companies and investors in film, television, music, digital media, live events, publishing, market research, data analytics, and businesses that service the entertainment industry.

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OUR FIRM

What Sets Us Apart

We know our sector. Our partners have all held senior positions at major entertainment companies, investment funds, and investment banks, including Fortress Investment Group, CBS Television, Viacom Entertainment Group (Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Famous Music, Mann Theatres, Paramount Parks), MESA Global, Houlihan Lokey, FTI, Stifel Financial, Polygram and others.
We are a small, selective firm that prides itself on championing our clients in the engagements we accept. We devote the time and resources required to thoroughly understand our clients’ businesses, needs and goals, provide constructive advice, and conduct rigorous processes that get results.
Our clients are typically involved in some aspect of the content industry, including B2C, B2B, finance, distribution, and intellectual property creation and monetization.
We maintain deep relationships with a wide array of strategic, traditional and non-traditional investor groups.

investment banking

Sell-Side M&A. We advise clients on a full range of sale transactions, including asset sales of intellectual property rights, corporate mergers, minority and majority recapitalizations. LEARN MORE>
Buy-Side M&A. Acquisitions represent an essential growth strategy. We provide a full range of buy-side advisory services that include a targeted search process, outreach, valuation, financing alternatives, and negotiation. LEARN MORE>
Capital formation. Capital raises involve the private placement of equity and/or debt. LEARN MORE>
We primarily work with middle market companies, institutional investors, and strategic investors
Securities are offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA/SIPC. Qualia Legacy Advisors, LLC and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.

Corporate Advisory

Strategic consulting, including developing capitalization strategies and advice on market positioning, joint venture opportunities, and overall growth strategy
Business development
Entertainment industry partnerships and content licensing
Complex financial modeling in support of capital raises
Intellectual property valuations
Targeted research

Restructuring and operational turnaround

Financial restructuring advisory services LEARN MORE>
Operational turnaround LEARN MORE>
Distressed M&A, including full access to our broker-dealer services LEARN MORE>
Sourcing Short Term Funding LEARN MORE>
Administration services LEARN MORE>

Our Team

All of our partners have spent a significant part of their careers at operating companies in the entertainment industry. We understand and are able to convey the unique qualities of entertainment and media deals to investors and the requirements of investors to their targets. Bridging the divide between capital and content, QLA stands out from its peers by its domain expertise and ability to deliver high-quality results to middle and lower middle market media businesses overlooked or underserved by generalist banks.

Our Team

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Ben Mogil

Managing Director

Howard Weg Siegfried paquet

Business Restructuring Advisor Operational Turnaround Advisor

our broker dealer relationship

finalis securities llc

Securities are offered through Finalis Securities LLC (https://www.finalis.com/), Member FINRA/SIPC. Qualia Legacy Advisors, LLC, a privately held California limited liability company, and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities. www.qualialegacy.com is a website operated by Qualia Legacy Advisors, LLC. Qualia Legacy Advisors, LLC provides financial and strategic advisory, consulting services, mergers and acquisitions services, and other services as described herein. Qualia Legacy Advisors is not a registered broker-dealer.

Our Assignments

Our team has worked on numerous capital formation, M&A and strategic consulting assignments for companies and financial investors in film, television, music, digital media, market research, finance and related service businesses.