LionTree was founded in June 2012 by
Aryeh Bourkoff, former head of
UBS's investment banking in the Americas, alongside fellow UBS alum, Ehren Stenzler who joined in July 2012. In 2017, an office in
Paris was opened. During the same year, LionTree founded Ocelot Partners, a
special-purpose acquisition company that focuses on investment opportunities in the European TMT sector, along with Andrew Barron and
Martin E. Franklin. In March 2018, Ocelot Partners acquired Ocean Outdoor, a U.K.-based digital billboard company, from
Searchlight Capital. In 2017, LionTree started its own media company, Kindred Media which produces the KindredCast podcast. ==Business overview==