Joe Puthenveetil
Partner
Co-Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa
Joe is a Partner and Co-Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Raine. Joe joined the Firm in 2010 and has worked on principal and advisory transactions across the media, entertainment and technology sectors, and also leads Raine’s music and live entertainment efforts globally.
While at Raine, Joe has worked on a variety of global transactions across music including KKR’s sale of Chord Music Partners to Dundee Partners and UMG, raising equity and debt for Create Music Group, the sale of tech platform Stem to Concord, the sale of the Opus Music catalogue to Litmus, the sale of Quality Control to HYBE, the sale of Alamo Records to Sony, and the sale of tech company FUGA to Downtown Music. Other transactions across TMT have included the sale of Tonic Games to Epic, the equity capital raise for children’s entertainment company Moonbug, and various SoftBank transactions (including the acquisition of Sprint and Clearwire, investment in Ola, and sale of DramaFever).
Joe has also helped lead a number of Raine’s investments, including Duetti, Firebird Music, SoundCloud, and C3 Presents (sold to Live Nation). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Duetti, Firebird and SoundCloud.
Joe has a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.