Credit Suisse acted as lead placement agent and Raine and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as placement agents on the private placement. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP acted as legal advisor to Credit Suisse on the private placement.
Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as lead financial and capital markets advisor to Forest Road. Greenhill & Co, LLC acted as financial advisor to Forest Road. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated acted as an additional capital markets advisor to Forest Road. Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP acted as legal advisors to Forest Road.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP acted as legal advisor to Myx Fitness.
About The Beachbody Company, Inc.
Headquartered in Southern California, Beachbody is a leading digital fitness and nutrition subscription company, with over two decades of creating innovative content and powerful brands. The Beachbody Company is the parent company to the Beachbody On Demand streaming platform (BOD), the live digital streaming platform Openfit and Myx fitness, the company’s connected fitness brand. As of March 31, 2021, the Company had 2.8 million total digital fitness subscribers, a nationwide peer-support system of over 400,000 influencers and coaches, plus a premium portfolio of branded nutrition products.
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