Transaction and Dealmaking Projects Archives

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Adventure Entertainment Cos. has new website.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos., an affiliate of StoneCreek Partners (“SCP”), has launched a new website at AEC Creative – in Beta form. Some of the client experience and specific projects that have been listed here along with SCP experience will be moved over to AEC Creative.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos. (AEC) is a conceptual design and project implementation company, focused on themed attractions, location-based entertainment, and outdoor recreation. AEC regularly collaborates with StoneCreek Partners during the project feasibility and conceptual design stages of client assignments, providing early “previsualization” of potential site organization, project massing and relative scale, and exploration of guest scripting and experience.

AEC has also established ventures with 3rd-party organizations for the operation of niche destination facilities in outdoor recreation (GoBOLD Adventures), creative campuses (Monumental Studios), and living stories (StagePlex). These new ventures are led by highly-experienced professionals in these industries, including Paul Bierman-Lytle, Justin Zoladz, and Robert “Bob” Johnson, among others. The purpose of Adventure Entertainment Cos. having a new website, is to prepare for more direct-to-consumer communications about these coming destination facilities. The Adventure Entertainment Cos. is committed to the creation of destination experiences for major project as well as smaller intra-regional locations, that combine the outdoor recreation, extreme sport, themed, and location-based entertainment industries.

China Mainstream Media National Film Capital

01.05.2019 Film Studios and Backlots, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

aec Adventure Entertainment Cos. represented China Mainstream Media National Film Capital, led by Yang bu-ting, as well as Park City Film Studios, as transaction advisors and negotiators in reaching a strategic cooperation agreement by and between the Chinese film investment organization and the Utah-based film studio.

The deal was negotiated in AEC’s capacity as the film studios development consultants.

Planned Community Consultants - Transaction Consultants and Negotiators

Master-Planned Community – Builder Sales

15.02.2019 Golf course redevelopment and adaptive re-use, Master Planned Community Developments, Project Consultants for North America, Residential Housing & Apartments, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

Acted as a master-planned community consultant to JMB Realty in connection with ongoing build-out of this major Orange County planned residential golf community. Focused residential product and financial analysis in support of ongoing builder sales program, at this resort-style master-planned golf community in Orange County, California. Financial analysis in support of residential product concepting, subdivision build-out, for Owner’s land development team involved with planning and developing this master-planned Orange County community.

Working with project team members including land planning, civil engineering, entitlement representatives, and in-house client project management and financial staff, the various financial analysis included builder residual calculations to support land sale negotiations to third-party home builders.

Coto de Caza is one of Orange County’s leading master-planned communities. The MPC includes golf courses, equestrian facilities, horse trails, and extensive pathways and hiking trails for residents, all in one of Orange County’s more rural settings.

Due diligence consultants - Transaction Consultants and Negotiators

U.S. Acquisitions Program – Owner Representation

30.08.2018 Due Diligence Consultants, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

Nissho Iwai American Corp. (Sojitz) | Acquisition program representative for U.S., for Nissho Iwai American Corp. (now Sojitz Corp.)

StoneCreek Partners was retained by Nissho Iwai American Corp. (NIAC, now Sojitz) as owner’s representative for their North American acquisitions program. The retainer relationship included solicitation and screening of investment proposals, initial investment suitability and feasibility evaluations for NIAC, and in select instances, preliminary deal structuring and due diligence support for prospective acquisitions.

Two select examples of additional detailed due diligence support were Calhoun Beach Club and Condominiums situated along the shoreline of Lake Calhoun in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, Newport-Banning Ranch located in Newport Beach, California. Sojitz was formed in 2004 by the merger of NIAC and Nichimen Corporation.

Owner Representation Consultants - due diligence consultants

Family Office Acquisitions Program

21.08.2018 Owner Representation Consultants, Project Consultants for Europe, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

Newfield Enterprises International | Executive-in-charge of acquisitions program for family office – Newfield Enterprises International. Much of the effort involved acting as a due diligence consultant in managing the deal pipeline and evaluating prospective acquisitions and strategic partners.