ST. MARY’S, Antigua, July 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (OTCQB:GMBL) (or the “Company”), a licensed online gambling company with a specific focus on esports wagering and 18+ gaming, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC and Dinosaur Financial Group, LLC as Exclusive Financial Advisors, Placement Agents and Investment Bankers for the Company.
As leading Wall Street investment banking and securities firms, they will be providing the Company with financial advisory services, in particular related to evaluating financing options. Additionally, the firms will also focus on assisting the Company in creating and executing new strategies for maximizing shareholder value through their full scope of investment banking services. The Company does not have a defined timeline for a financing and cannot provide any assurance whether or when a financing will be announced or consummated.
Grant Johnson, CEO of Esports Entertainment Group, stated, “We are very pleased to have engaged Joseph Gunnar and Dinosaur Financial as the Company’s exclusive investment banks. Joseph Gunnar and Dinosaur Financial both have a long history of assisting public companies raise additional growth capital. A financing, if successful, will allow the Company to significantly accelerate our growth plans.”
Stephen A. Stein, President of Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC, stated, “Esports Entertainment Group is on the cutting edge of an exploding industry. We are very excited about teaming up.”
Arthur Whitcomb, Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking at Dinosaur Financial Group, LLC, stated, “Grant Johnson has positioned Esports Entertainment Group very well for significant growth. We are pleased to be working with one of the only publicly traded small cap/micro-cap companies in this industry.”
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC
Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC is a full service broker-dealer and investment bank headquartered next to the NYSE in NYC. Its Capital Markets Group is dedicated to facilitating micro-cap company IPOs, secondary public offerings, PIPEs, up listings and advisory services. For more information visit https://www.josephgunnar.com/
About Dinosaur Financial Group, LLC
The Dinosaur Financial Group investment banking division covers the capital markets with full services across equity and debt for clients worldwide. It facilitates global equity and debt capital to finance corporate expansion, M&A, international trade and going-private transactions. Typical transactions may involve domestic or international growth companies looking for $10 million to $150 million. The company is based in New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Milan, Italy and Madrid, Spain.
For more information visit http://www.dinogroup.com
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About Esports Entertainment Group
Esports Entertainment Group Inc. is a licensed online gambling company with a specific focus on esports wagering and 18+ gaming. Esports Entertainment offers bet exchange style wagering on esports events in a licensed, regulated and secure platform to the global esports audience, currently excluding the US and EU. In addition, Esports Entertainment intends to offer users from around the world the ability to participate in multi-player mobile and PC video game tournaments for cash prizes. Esports Entertainment is led by a team of industry professionals and technical experts from the online gambling and the video game industries, and esports. The Company holds licenses to conduct online gambling and 18+ gaming on a global basis, currently excluding the US and EU, in Curacao, Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. The Company maintains offices in Antigua, Curacao and Warsaw, Poland. Esports Entertainment common stock is listed on the OTCQB under the symbol GMBL. For more information visit www.esportsentertainmentgroup.com
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