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27/07/2018
CMS assisted 87 seconds’ shareholders in the acquisition of this Belgian company by the French Datawords Group. Through the transaction, the management of 87 seconds acquired a participation in the Datawords Group.
87 seconds is a European video content agency, specialized in video production and strategy, with offices in Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Geneva, Amsterdam, and Madrid. The new group has a consolidated revenue of over $70m and counts 500 employees across Europe, Asia and the United States.
The Belgian CMS team responsible for the operation consisted of Cedric Guyot, Noélie Robert and Alicia Cauwenbergh. In France, the CMS team consisted of Arnaud Hugot and Matthieu Rollin.
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