Experience: Overview

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Members of SMI Group’s senior team have executed hundreds of complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestments, strategic ventures and licenses and real estate developments with a transaction value exceeding $50 billion.  Many of these transactions included financial and operating turnarounds.  Businesses acquired and managed by our professionals have generated billions of dollars of combined operating revenues and employed thousands of employees around the world.

Our senior professionals have founded or-co-founded dozens of businesses, successfully financed these companies and obtained liquidity for investors through initial public offerings, reverse-mergers, follow-on offerings, mergers and sales. 

Our professionals have served as chairmen or top officers of public and private companies ranging from development-stage to more than $1 billion in annual revenues, served as directors of numerous companies, including troubled financial institutions, and helped create many billions of dollars of wealth for investors in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Our professionals also have managed funds with assets ranging from less than $50 million to more than $1.5 billion, including investments in equities and income instruments.

Industries for which our professionals and executives of our strategic alliances have concluded multiple transactions include: apparel, agriculture, alternative and traditional energy, beauty products, broadcasting, construction and infrastructure projects, consumer products, education, entertainment, finance, food products, gaming, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, media, medical devices, mining, publishing, real estate, technology and telecommunications.

Transactions and Initiatives Led by Our Senior Professionals

 

Iconic companies and assets sold or acquired by our senior professionals include, among many others:  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, MGM Grand, Bally’s, Desert Inn (now Wynn Hotel), Sands (now, the Venetian), Dunes (now Bellagio), Earls Court/Olympia (largest exhibition center in London), MITEC (largest exhibition center in Malaysia), Metro Traffic Networks, Premiere Radio Networks and major infrastructure projects throughout Southeast Asia. 

Other leading companies advised by our senior professionals for significant business initiatives or transactions include, among many others large and small: AT&T, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Dentsu Advertising, Deutsche Bank, Preferred Bank, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell Corporation, United Healthcare, Westwood One, Resorts World, Reuters, Tata Group and Texas Instruments. 

Our senior professionals have advised hundreds of other major corporations and properties.

Iconic Companies and Assets Sold or Acquired Include*

Island World

Sands (now, the Venetian)

Dunes (now Bellagio)

MITEC

* Includes transactions during and prior to a professional’s association with SMI Group.  (By clicking on an icon, the icon will rotate, showing the company name.  Then, for certain companies, double clicking will take the user to the company’s website.  SMI Group has no responsibility for third‐party websites. Should you leave the SMI Group website, you do so at your own risk.)

Leading Companies Led or Advised by Our Professionals Include*

* Includes businesses led or advised by SMI Group founders and senior professionals during and prior to their association with SMI Group.  (By clicking on an icon, the icon will rotate, showing the company name.  Then, for certain companies, double clicking will take the user to the company’s website.  SMI Group has no responsibility for third‐party websites.  Should you leave the SMI Group website, you do so at your own risk.)