Squire Patton Boggs has advised Macmillan Publishers International Limited on its acquisition of independent publisher Harriman House.
The team advising Macmillian Publishers was led by Corporate partner Rob Bray in London.
Macmillan Publishers, a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and format. US publishers include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin’s Press, and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name.
Harriman House, founded by Philip Jenks and Stephen Eckett in 1992, is one of the UK's leading independent publishers of finance, trading and investment books. Its catalogue covers a wide range of subjects from personal finance, small business and economics, through to stock market investing, trading and professional guides. Harriman House will retain its name as an imprint within Pan Macmillan under the continuing leadership of Managing Director Myles Hunt.