People in businesses like ours still think of William Morris Endeavor as a talent agency, but ever since their acquisition of IMG for approximately $2.4 billion in 2014, the parent company has become a hedge-fund controlled entertainment group that also owns a talent agency. Subsequent deals included the purchase of a controlling interest in Ultimate Fighting Championship, as well as purchases of Professional Bull Riders, the Miss Universe pageant, branding and marketing agency 160over90, digital media distribution company NeuLion, and more. Now the parent company “has filed or is about to file confidential paperwork for an IPO,” the WSJ reports, […]
