Mergers and Acquisitions
Advice on acquisitions, divestitures, and change-of-control transactions in catalogs and music companies. The Firm designs the process, underwrites the asset, and executes through closing.
Services
Corporate Finance.
Advice on mergers, acquisitions, and strategic transactions in the music asset class.
The Practice
Overview.
Corporate Finance is the Firm's transaction practice. It advises corporations, boards, financial sponsors, and catalog owners on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions involving music catalogs and music companies. Engagements are selective and run as structured processes.
For an owner, the Firm prepares the asset, constructs the buyer universe, and executes the process: rights and earnings review, positioning, targeted outreach, negotiation, and closing.
For an acquirer, the Firm originates, underwrites, negotiates, and closes. Where the Firm invests alongside an acquirer, it does so through Project EQINXX.
For music companies and established writers and artists, the Firm advises on partnerships, licensing, distribution, and other corporate development, including special situations. Debt advisory covers catalog advances and related financing, introduced through specialty providers.
Capabilities
What the mandate covers.
Corporate Development
Partnerships, licensing, distribution, and special situations for music companies and established writers and artists, where the transaction is strategic rather than a sale of the catalog.
Debt Advisory
Advice on catalog advances and related financing, introduced through specialty providers with which the Firm maintains relationships.
Coverage
Who we advise.
The Firm is retained by corporations, boards, financial sponsors, catalog owners, music companies, and established writers and artists, in change-of-control, acquisition, partnership, and financing situations. Completed engagements are confidential. References are available on request.
Music catalogs
Publishing and recorded rights.
Music companies
Operating platforms and multimedia.
Financial sponsors
Institutional acquirers of catalogs and companies.
Owners
Catalog holders and companies in process.
Writers and artists
Established creators on corporate development and special situations.
Lenders
Independent analysis in support of catalog advances.