Blue Ant Media and marblemedia merge production and distribution operations into one unified studio and rights business

Effective August 10, 2023, Blue Ant Media and marblemedia merged their production and distribution operations into one unified studio and rights business. 

Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international content producer, distributor and channel operator. The media company is headquartered in Toronto, with seven international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Washington and Beijing. marblemedia is known for creating unrivaled premium scripted, unscripted, family and kids' content for over 22 years, with over 2,100 hours of content distributed in over 200 territories. marblemedia is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Los Angeles and London.
 
The combined businesses, which includes production companies marblemedia, Blue Ant Studios, Saloon Media and Look Mom! Productions, in addition to distributors Distribution360 and Blue Ant International, provide an expanded scope of intellectual properties across all genres including scripted comedy and drama, unscripted entertainment, formats, factual and premium docs, live action kids/family and animation.
 
Gowling WLG advised marblemedia with respect to this transaction with a team led by Faran Umar-Khitab and that included Olivia Lifman, Crystal Park and Alexandra Misurka (corporate/M&A), Natalie Rizkalla-Kamel and Madison MacColl (IP) and Paul Carenza (tax).