Long Acre Partners is an independent corporate finance advisory house focusing on the European mid-market media sector. In 2004 they completed 24 transactions with a combined value of £4bn, and were #1 in the M&A deal value for the European mid-market.
LANIX provided the following services
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Company Overview
Long Acre’s team of professionals provides their clients with informed strategic insight into global media markets and trends, and corporate finance advice on a broad range of transactions:
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Management buy-outs/buy-ins
- Strategic alliances
- Shareholder restructuring
- Debt finance
- Private equity fundraising
- Initial Public Offerings (IPO)
They focus on both consumer and professional media, encompassing advertising, public relations, marketing services and market research TV/Radio broadcasting, production and entertainment; Business, consumer & professional publishing; Music & Leisure, and internet, eCommerce, Betting & Games.
Situation
Long Acre Partners faced with the increasing challenge of meeting technology needs brought on by their rapid expansion, employed LANIX to further secure their network and provide extended storage abilities.
Solution
LANIX installed 5 new servers to implement large storage capacity facility. Further security enhancements core to the rollout was active directory, enabling simplified management of the entire infrastructure. Lead by our technical director and his industry voice on migration from NT to Windows 2003 Servers, it is here that LANIX afforded the opportunity to install a complete networking infrastructure upgrade to support the everyday messaging, data management and collaboration needs of the organisation.
The task was successfully project managed from the planning stage right through to the test and system rollout. The system was successfully migrated from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition.
Outcome
LANIX – a complete support partner for Long Acre Partners – continue to support and manage the network infrastructure. LANIX with our pro-active mentality are always on hand to advise on technology trends.
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