Allen & Company LLC is an American privately held boutique investment bank based at 711 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The firm is known for its deliberate avoidance of publicity and specializes in the real estate, technology, media and entertainment sectors.
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History
Founded in 1922 by Charles Robert Allen, Jr., he was soon joined by his brothers, Herbert A. Allen, Sr. and Harold Allen. The firm is generally regarded as a boutique advisory firm with a specific specialization in real estate and the media and entertainment sectors.
Allen & Company, which is currently run by Herbert Allen, Jr., nephew of the founder, generally shies away from publicity and does not maintain a website or issue press releases, with the exception of the extensive media procured for its annual conference evidenced by its allowance of access to the conference by financial media properties such CNBC, The Wall Street Journal and others to cover its event.
In 1973, Allen & Company bought a stake in Columbia Pictures. When the business was sold in 1982 to Coca-Cola, it netted a significant profit. Since then, Herbert Allen, Jr. has had a place on Coca-Cola's board of directors.
Since its founding in 1982, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference has regularly drawn high-profile attendees such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Andy Grove, Richard Parsons, and Donald Keough.
Allen & Co. was one of ten underwriters for the Google initial public offering in 2004, and were announced to have been retained in January 2011 to assist the ownership of the New York Mets in obtaining a strategic partner (although such a transaction was not ultimately consummated). Allen & Co. was one of seven underwriters on the initial public offering of Twitter in November 2013.
Allen & Co was the lead advisor to Time Warner in its $108 billion acquisition by AT&T.
Allen & Co. was also the adviser of Facebook in its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014 and also the adviser to Time Warner in its $80 billion 2015 merger with Charter Communications. In 2016, Allen & Co. was an advisor to LinkedIn for its merger talks with Microsoft. In 2016, Allen & Co. was lead advisor to Walmart in its $3.3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and advisor to Verizon in its $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo!. In 2015, Allen was the sole advisor to AOL in its acquisition by Verizon and lead advisor to Centene Corporation in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Health Net and advisor to eBay in its separation from PayPal. In 2007, Allen was sole advisor to Activision in its $18 billion merger with Vivendi Games.
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Notable current employees
- Bob Kerrey, former Senator and Governor of Nebraska
- George Tenet, former Director of the CIA
- Steve Greenberg, son of baseball Hall of Fame Hank Greenberg
- Bill Bradley, former United States Senator and Basketball Hall of Fame
See also
- Herbert Allen, Jr.
- Herbert Allen III
- Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
References
Further reading
- CNN Fortune "Inside the Private World of Allen & Co."
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