Media slate
financing models.

For co-financiers of media slate deals.

Development & transactional models to attract equity, mezzanine and debt in media slate deals for feature films, television series or games.

The challenge

International media will have expected outcomes soon after release.  Bringing these expected outcomes to investors and lenders involves understanding both the risks and the returns.  The returns can be very good, but the risks must be quantified.

The solution

Lazuli Solutions builds media slate financing models.

The results

Our models will reassure and attract potential equity, mezzanine and debt investors to the project.

The models calculate the expected risks and returns for investors and co-financiers by quantifing the amount of debt, mezzanine and equity required to finance the slate.

We can run thousands of simulations, giving you a probabilistic view of the expected risks and returns, ready to show to investors and lenders.

How are we different?

We are very proud of our models, both for accuracy, content and usability.  But what sets our models apart from the competition is the mixture of pragmatism, experience and focus that goes into developing them.

• Pragmatism - ‘knowing when to stop’ is key to maximise the business and financial objectives while respecting the constraints imposed by the software

• Experience - working across different business sectors, multiple model types and time horizons, we are able to create innovative solutions

• Focus - our emphasis on understanding the questions that need to be answered leads to elegant and successful models

In short, Lazuli models allow our clients to make better decisions.

Our clients

Our media slate financing models have been used in numerous transactions and media deals since their creation in 1998.

We have worked with co-financing management teams in London, Singapore and Los Angeles, and on the lender side we have worked with investment banks in London and New York.

Lazuli provided the modelling services for Europe’s first media slate financing deal in 2011. See the Anton case study.

We are happy to put you in touch with our past clients to vouch for our media slate financing model.

Guarantee

Lazuli Solutions guarantees that the model will work for you.

To do this, we make sure that:

• all our modellers and project managers are highly experienced

• we help our clients uncover the precise questions that lead to a properly specified model

On delivery of the model, we promise a no-quibble attitude in making sure the model works for our clients.

Long term, we are available for questions on the model, because we want the model to work successfully for our clients.

Finally, included in the price of the model are two ongoing free maintenance sessions* within the first year after delivery.

*You send us the model and we will carry out a reduced integrity review and a high-level commercial review, repair any errors we find, and report back to you.

Pricing

We don’t charge for the first meeting and subsequent conversations that allow us to understand the scope of work and produce a quote.

The quote will be based on two levels of work, a higher-level for specification, management and delivery, and a lower rate for modelling, with estimated time for each.

Get in touch to find out more.