Philip Schuman

Philip Schuman is the Leader of FTI’s Media & Entertainment practice group. He has over 30 years of experience in providing advice regarding new business entry strategies and execution, service line and territorial expansions, business transformations, and mergers and acquisitions strategy, due diligence and integration.

Mr. Schuman has worked across the value chain of media and entertainment, including with content creators and distributors,
programming services and programming platforms, transmission platforms and many technology providers to these sectors.

Examples of the companies Mr. Schuman has worked with include The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Televisa Univision, Fox Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Paramount Pictures, AT&T, DirecTV, Frontier Communications, Verizon, Liberty Global, inDemand, BSkyB, Sky Italia, Canal+, Kabel Deutschland, British Telecom, Virgin Media, Deutsche Telekom, RTL, Studio 71 and ProSieben/Sat1.

Financial investors that Mr. Schuman has advised include Blackstone, International Finance Corporation, TowerBrook Capital Partners, Cerberus Capital Management, Platinum Equity and many others.