Richard Gray is a Managing Director at ACF Investment Bank. We specialize in selling, buying, fundraising, and pre and post deal services for businesses in intellectual property, content creation, international distribution, and we work at the intersection of talent and brands.

He is a co-founder and co-owner of the business with over 20 years’ investment banking experience and has been honored multiple times by Variety in its prestigious Dealmakers Impact Report.

With offices in the UK and USA, ACF have advised on close to 100 transactions in the media and entertainment sector with a combined transaction value of over $5 billion. 

Richard has advised scripted and unscripted content creators and distributors in traditional and new media, as well as Drama and Film Executive Producers.

Richard’s deals include the sale of Mssng Peces to Tribeca Enterprises, The Immigrant, producer of El Chapo, to Fremantle Media, Litton Entertainment, producer of Litton's Weekend Adventure, to Hearst, Renegade, producer of Naked and Afraid, to eOne, Pilgrim Studios, producer of Ultimate Fighter, to Lionsgate, and the sale of Orion Entertainment, producer of Building Alaska, to Red Arrow Entertainment Group.

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