ESM – Music Industry
Paul Hastings advises public and private companies, global entertainment and media groups, asset managers, family offices, artists, athletes, public figures and entrepreneurs across the music industry. Our work spans day-to-day commercial matters and the transactions, financing and technologies reshaping how music is created, distributed and monetized.
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Daily Journal (2026)
BMG, the international music publishing company and record label that represents some of the world’s most iconic songwriters and recording artists, on several of its most strategic catalog acquisitions and joint ventures, including transactions involving prominent music artists worldwide.
Create Music Group, one of the leading music publishing companies, on some of its largest and most complex catalog acquisitions and related transactions including:
• In its more than $300 million investment into intendent record label Nettwerk Music Group, giving Create a controlling position in Nettwerk’s music IP portfolio; and
• In its strategic acquisition of the catalog of electronic music artist and producer Deadmau5 and his label, Mau5trap, in a deal valued at more than $55 million that includes the sound recording and publishing copyrights of more than 4,000 songs.