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Mondo.NYC Speaker

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Michael Poster

Michael Poster

Chair of Music Acquisitions & Financing and Partner, Michelman & Robinson LLP

Michael Poster is Music Acquisitions and Financing Chair and Managing Partner in Michelman & Robinson LLP's New York Office, where he specializes in catalog acquisitions, corporate M&A, debt and equity financing transactions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and other deals where the music industry and corporate dealmaking converge.

As a transactional attorney with over 25 years' experience, Michael has successfully structured, negotiated, and closed a broad range of corporate deals with an emphasis on the music, media and entertainment industries. Michael’s music catalog experience spans the length of his career, and includes buy-side and sell-side catalog transactions across nearly every deal size, rights type, and genre in the marketplace, and involves clients including major and independent labels, private-equity backed buyers, top industry executives, hit-making songwriters, and key sources of debt and equity financing. He has been named in Billboard's annual list of Top Music Lawyers each year from 2018 through 2023 and has been included among its listing of top legal dealmakers in music catalog transactions. Michael was also recognized as a "Power Lawyer in Music" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2021 and included in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report” in 2023.

Michael has been referred to as "the most evil lawyer in the world," "one of those ‘New York’ lawyers," and "the most effective dealmaker in the music industry" (we will leave it to you to figure out which was from a client).

Michael is honored to have served as chairman of the Mondo.NYC annual CLE event, and has previously been chair of other NY-based entertainment and media law programs for more than 10 years. In addition, he has spoken and published articles on copyright, corporate finance, entertainment, and licensing issues and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Billboard, Forbes, Bloomberg, Crain's New York Business and other publications.

CLE 2023: Fractional Music Interests: Opportunities and Challenges

Friday, October 13, 2023

An increasing number of companies are offering sales of fractional music rights, or micro-slices of rights in a composition or recording. These offerings are designed to provide liquidity to creators while simultaneously allowing fans to participate in real ownership of an artist’s work. However, these offering also come with complex legal challenges under both securities law and copyright law. This panel will discuss these legal issues, and how some of the companies in this space are addressing them.

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