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...Management of the division was taken over by Thomas Coesfeld, the 33-year-old scion of Bertelsmann’s owners, the Mohn family, last year....
...Separately from its own budget, BMG last year struck a partnership with KKR to jointly acquire rights with a combined war chest of $1bn....
...management and taken advantage of the benefits of being owned by the cash-rich Bertelsmann....
...She described him as a “good choice” to continue the “sound financial management” at BMG....
...A Pink Floyd deal would burnish Blackstone’s credentials as a main player in the music rights business....
...BMG, one of the world’s largest music companies, last year agreed a partnership with the private equity group KKR, allocating $1bn to buy music rights....
...Challenged by shrinking CD sales and online piracy, Sony had merged with BMG Music, then owned by Germany’s Bertelsmann, in 2004, leaving the two management teams almost immediately in conflict....
...The Mohn family has been testing two of its own for top management: the chief financial officer of BMG Thomas Coesfeld and his brother Carsten, the chief executive of the venture capital arm Bertelsmann...
...KKR to buy $1bn of music rights....
...Middle management programme, ESMT, 2021. Head of public IT security consulting, head of Hamburg office, Infodas GmbH, Germany Why did you decide to study an executive education course?...
...LetterOne has the right to do so until the end of 2023....
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘Anaïs Mitchell’ is released by BMG Rights Management...
...One scoop to start: Warner Music and KKR-backed BMG are competing to buy Pink Floyd’s entire back catalogue for $500mn as the battle to acquire music rights heats up....
...Blackstone has taken a major step into the world of music rights, announcing a tie-up with Hipgnosis Song Management, the company run by music mogul Merck Mercuriadis....
...Apollo last week said it was launching a new investment company, HarbourView, with $1bn to spend on music rights and KKR has teamed up with the music company BMG to establish a new fund while investing directly...
...Stevie Nicks sold most of her songbook to a specialist fund, Primary Wave, for $100m, Lindsey Buckingham sold the rights to his catalogue to London-listed Hipgnosis, and music company BMG acquired drummer...
...Mr Tedder’s management company Patriot Management and artist development company mtheory will retain a minority stake in the songwriter’s back catalogue....
...Milan’s owners, US hedge fund Elliott Management, and the club’s chief executive Ivan Gazidis wanted him to adopt a youth-oriented transfer policy and steadily build the team over time....
...(WSJ) News round-up KKR joins forces with BMG for music rights buying spree (FT) Tencent confirms talks with Chinese antitrust regulators (FT + Lex) Deutsche Bank plans Asia equity capital markets rebuild...
...Cross-checking between monthly portfolio updates from DWS and official voting right notifications made by Wirecard, Mr Kirchner was able to see that the fund manager had at least doubled its holding in the...
...Flashes of enduring quality are suffocated by the thick fog of disillusionment that has settled over Morrissey. ★★☆☆☆ ‘I Am Not a Dog on a Chain’ is released by BMG Rights Management...
...Just look at this organisation table from its 2018 management report (right click and open in a new tab to enlarge): For those familiar with family-owned empires on the continent, such a tangled web of...
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