Overview
Hayley Silvertown is of counsel in the Music Industry and Entertainment & Media practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Century City office. She brings extensive experience and provides strategic insight on complex transactions and day-to-day industry matters within the music sector and broader entertainment and media landscape. Hayley represents clients on both buy-side and sell-side of music catalog acquisitions, acquisitions of and investments in music companies and joint venture arrangements, as well as on day-to-day transactional work, such as recording and publishing agreements, podcasting and content license agreements, first-look and overall deals, branding and endorsement agreements, composer agreements for film and television and performance agreements relating to music festivals and live concerts.
Hayley navigates high-profile transactions with a deep understanding of the industry's evolving landscape and provides clients with both practical and forward-thinking guidance to support their creative and business interests and ensure they are best positioned for growth.
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles, Faculty of Law, LL.M, Specialization in Entertainment, Media and Technology, 2019
- University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, LL.M, Specialization in Business Law, 2015
- City University, City Law School, LL.B Hons, 2014
- University of Western Ontario, B.A. Hons, 2012
Representations
- Create Music Group in its $300+ million investment into leading global independent record label, Nettwerk Music Group, giving Create a controlling position in Nettwerk’s music IP portfolio.
- Private investment platform and its affiliated vehicles, which served as a provider of hybrid capital in connection with the acquisition of The Weeknd’s music catalog, including both publishing and recorded music assets.
- Liberty Mutual Insurance as equity investor with Northleaf Capital Partners in a special purpose equity managed by music rights investment firm, GoldState, for the purpose of acquiring music royalty assets. GoldState’s $500 million raise marks the private equity world’s latest big vote of confidence in music rights.
- Music and tech company, Too Lost, on various deals including in connection with equity investments in music tech companies.
- Create Music Group in connection with music catalog and music company acquisitions, both domestically and internationally, including:
- In its strategic acquisition of the recording and publishing catalogs of seven-time Grammy Award-nominee Deadmau5 and his label, Mau5trap, and go-forward joint venture arrangement.
- In its cross-border acquisition of Canadian Indie Electronic Label Monstercat.
- Primary Wave on various complex catalog acquisitions and strategic joint venture arrangements with legendary artists, producers and rock bands.
- Numerous social and technology platforms and brands, including 101 Studios (Yellowstone franchise, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown), Pokémon, TikTok and Match Group, on a wide range of music and non-music matters and initiatives, including audio-visual content production and distribution, live events, virtual and augmented reality, music licensing and distribution, merchandising and artificial intelligence.
- Multi-Grammy Award-winning music producer/mixer Manny Marroquin on 50+ mixing agreements for many of the biggest pop, hip-hop and rock records.
- The estate of Joe Cocker and his widow, Pam Cocker, in the sale of his music catalog to Irving Azoff’s company, Iconic Artists Group.
- Spotify on dozens of podcast agreements, as well as other media and production companies on first-look and overall deals with SiriusXM an iHeartMedia.
- Structured endorsement and talent services arrangements with Mario Lopez, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Harvey, Meg Thee Stallion, J. Balvin, Doja Cat and others.
- Numerous artists in connection with performances at live events and festivals.