Practice
Music & Entertainment
Business affairs for catalogs, deals and productions, handled with the rigor of any other asset class.
- Coverage
- Catalogs, deals, productions and incentives
- You receive
- Readiness read, ranked gap list, 30-day plan
Overview
The business side of creative assets.
We work with rights holders, composers, artists, producers and the companies around them, and with buyers evaluating catalogs.
Catalogs are valued on paper: agreements, registrations, splits and statements. Productions are delivered on budgets, vendors and approvals. We put both in order before anyone negotiates, files or closes.
Services
What the practice covers
Catalogs and rights
Know what you own and what it should pay.
- Catalog audits and royalty statement review
- Registration across PROs, the MLC and SoundExchange
- Split sheets and chain-of-title organization
- Neighboring rights and unclaimed royalty recovery
- Catalog sale readiness and data room preparation
Deals and business affairs
Every deal file complete before it reaches counsel.
- Deal file review and readiness
- Term organization for entertainment counsel
- Contract obligation and renewal tracking
- Licensing, sync and brand partnership coordination
- Independent diligence for catalog buyers
Production and release operations
Budgets, vendors and deliverables under control.
- Production budgets and cost tracking
- Vendor and stakeholder management
- Release planning and milestone management
- Deliverables and approvals management
- Closeout and archive
Film and television incentives
Credits treated as cash only when they are.
- Incentive eligibility and jurisdiction comparison
- Credit structuring and timing
- Qualified spend tracking
- Audit documentation coordinated with the CPA
- Transferable credit sale coordination
How an entertainment engagement runs
From the paper to the payment.
Discover
Owners, authority and stakeholdersMap
Rights, documents and revenue sourcesPlan
Scope, budget and milestonesCoordinate
Vendors, counsel and approvalsDeliver
Launch, filing or closingClose out
Records and retained supportWhat you receive
- A readiness assessment of the deal or catalog
- A gap list, ranked by financial impact
- A 30-day plan to close gaps before diligence
- A single organized file for every advisor to work from
Where revenue usually leaks
- Works registered incorrectly, or not at all
- Statements never reconciled against the agreement
- Incentives counted as cash before they are transferable
- Delivery terms that quietly suspend a payment
Professional boundaries. We provide business affairs, not legal counsel. Legal conclusions and negotiated instruments belong to entertainment counsel. Representation of a catalog for sale takes place only under a written mandate with disclosed compensation.
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Next step
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what needs to get done. You will receive a written first read on where the work stands and the first move.