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Hackman Acquires Manhattan Beach Studios from Carlyle in $650M Deal
Los Angeles-based Hackman Capital Partners acquired, through an affiliated entity, The MBS Group, a film and TV studio real estate and production services platform, from The Carlyle Group for $650 million. MBS operates two separate businesses: MBS Media Campus in Manhattan Beach, CA and MBS Services.
Hackman Capital Partners’ Michael Hackman says, “The MBS Group has become the premier platform for content producers around the world, and we are thrilled to add the MBS Media Campus to our growing portfolio of studio and media assets.”
MBS Media Campus, or Manhattan Beach Studios as it is commonly known, is a 22-acre, 587,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art studio production facility. The real estate asset was acquired in a JV with an investment partnership led by Square Mile Capital Management.
MBS Services is a multi-national, studio-based production services and infrastructure business, with a global network of more than 35 partner studios including roughly 260 stages.
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