The MindGeek places of work in Montreal. Ottawa-primarily based personal fairness firm Moral Money Companions is purchasing MindGeek, the mother or father firm of Pornhub, for an undisclosed sum.Christinne Muschi/The World and Mail
MindGeek, the father or mother business of adult enjoyment website Pornhub, is being acquired by an Ottawa-based personal fairness organization in a offer that will see the entire exit of the pornography company’s controversial extended-time owners and greater part shareholders – Feras Antoon, David Tassillo and Austrian investor Bernd Bergmair.
Ethical Money Associates, a recently fashioned non-public fairness enterprise set up by felony defence attorneys and a former legislation enforcement agent with ties to the Canadian cannabis industry, announced Thursday that it experienced bought MindGeek in its entirety, which features a large portfolio of grownup leisure producers and distributors further than just Pornhub.
ECP did not disclose how substantially it paid for MindGeek but mentioned that, along with unnamed international investors who helped fund the offer, it now owns 100 per cent of the company’s shares.
MindGeek is registered in Luxembourg but is operate out of Montreal. In a quick assertion, the corporation mentioned it was “looking forward” to functioning with the ECP group.
The new house owners say they intend to provide more transparency to a business whose management practices have largely been shrouded in secrecy, thanks in part to the reclusive posture all a few previous proprietors assumed for yrs at the helm of MindGeek.
Solomon Friedman, an Ottawa prison defence law firm and founding partner of ECP, advised The World and Mail that one of the factors his business needed to invest in MindGeek – over and above the economic price it believes the business gives – was to overtly endorse “consensual and sexual intercourse-constructive adult entertainment” and spark discussions around believe in