About trowbridge

 Trowbridge provides bespoke solutions crafted specifically for the challenges and opportunities inherent in the entertainment and media domains.  Every client engagement is unique and aligns with their goals. We are relationship focused and proud of our proven track record and history of delivering results that consistently exceed expectations.

We work with a varied clientele, including financial and strategic investors, growth-oriented enterprises, multinational corporations, and government bodies. These representative client engagements underscore the breadth of our expertise and our ability to cater to diverse needs within the ever-evolving landscape of the entertainment and media industries.

Joseph Woolf is the owner of Trowbridge Capital, a specialty strategic advisory and financial consulting firm exclusively focused on the entertainment, media, and music industries.  Mr. Woolf has over 30 years of banking and investing experience and over that time has advised, underwritten or arranged many billions of dollars of capital commitments to a broad range of entertainment and media companies including filmed entertainment, music, sports and the service sector that supports these industries.

Mr. Woolf has structured and arranged hundreds of film financing transactions involving debt and equity capital and soft money with independent film producers and production companies, international film sales organizations, non-bank lenders, private equity and hedge funds, international film distributors along with all of the major film studios and many of the major streaming platforms.

Notable films Mr, Woolf has structured and arranged production financing for include Best Picture Academy Award winners Spotlight and Braveheart, as well as Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, reported as the largest independently produced film ever financed outside of the studio system.

Mr. Woolf is also an award-winning producer for the recently released documentary film “Amazing Grace” the celebrated concert movie showcasing Aretha Franklin’s inspirational performance at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.

Recent representative engagements include:

Advised, structured and arranged $225,000,000 senior debt financing for private equity group in connection with its acquisition of filmed entertainment and television assets.

Advised and structured $121,000,000 senior debt financing for non-bank financial institution in connection with an independent television production, financing and distribution company.

Advised, structured and arranged $17,200,000 debt (senior and subordinated) for an independent animation production, financing and distribution company.

Strategic opportunity and M&A target advisory engagement for large international media company.