Valuations

We are renowned in the industry as expert valuers of businesses, brands and media-related Intellectual Property (IP), having acted for a wide range of clients, including global hospitality and retail groups, record companies, publishers, individual artists and their managers, music lawyers, banks and financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic.

From valuing global film franchises, iconic music catalogues and literary rights to expert witness support for legal teams, clients benefit from our breadth of specialist knowledge across the creative industry.

In addition, our team has significant commercial experience of setting up and running music publishing companies, including acquiring music catalogues of all sizes and signing numerous administration deals.

We have valued various substantial music catalogues on both the recording and publishing side; this involves analysing an artist’s repertoire and forecasting its future value, based on its present-day value, as well as a market multiple approach.

Thanks to soaring values over recent years, music catalogues have become a billion-dollar investment market, with returns in the tens, if not hundreds, of millions. This has encouraged more artists to review their catalogue values even while they are still relatively young, with increasing numbers selling as they get older. There can also be numerous tax benefits to selling music catalogues during an artist’s lifetime, and we are ideally placed to advise here. Additionally, finance can be leveraged upon the copyright assets held within a music catalogue, which we can help to facilitate, having various contacts in the banking world who specialise in these deal structures.