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...Forced by the banker to take on QCS to advise their fledgling music-publishing venture, the Cambridgeshire couple watched in horror as cash drained out of the company into the consultant’s pockets for advice...
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...Santiago de la Mora, a director of print content partnerships at Google, points to key differences between books and music, where the digital disaggregation of tracks from albums heaped damage on the record...
...Magrath LLP....
...The $300m-plus acquisition of Bug is expected to give BMG – a music publishing joint venture between Bertelsmann of Germany and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity group – the scale to extract more...
...s music publishing arm....
...Roberts, which owns BMG Music Publishing with Bertelsmann....
...Sony ATV, a music publishing joint venture between Michael Jackson’s estate and Sony, has looked at the Warner-Chappell publishing business....
...Such a sale could reshape the music publishing business....
...Existing EMI rivals including Vivendi’s Universal Music and Sony’s separate recorded music and music publishing companies are also looking closely to see whether they can bulk up by buying parts of EMI....
...Music was viewed as the least appealing, followed by consumer publishing and TV and film....
...EMI’s management now looks more stable under Roger Faxon, the former head of its music publishing division....
...Private equity groups expect to boost their level of investment in media assets in 2011, but music, consumer publishing and television are considered the least attractive sectors, writes the FT....
...Hartwig Masuch, BMG chief executive, said Stage Three Music was an iconic music-publishing business with an “elite roster of writers” in “the hottest and most competitive music market in the world”....
...If there are latent concerns about pricing, Google Books has provoked defensive alarm in the same way as illegal downloading has done for music....
...“He’d overspent so badly at that point that he had gotten a number of advances [against future sales] from Sony,” his partner in the Sony ATV music publishing venture which owns most of the Beatles’ biggest...
...With the help of Cutting Edge Music Holdings as industry consultant, the fund will acquire the publishing rights to original scores featured in independently produced feature films and TV series....
...Colin Farrell is narrating the film while Bono from U2 is writing the music....
...The private equity firm could decide to focus on the more predictable music publishing business. Shares in Warner Music bounced 8 per cent to $14.92, valuing the group at $2.25bn (£1bn)....
...Many of EMI’s largest investors believe that an EMI-Warner combination will happen if European regulators clear the Sony-BMG merger and Universal Music’s acquisition of BMG Music Publishing....
...However, one name moving wider again was EMI, the UK music group, after a story in the Sunday Times said that Warner Music was putting together a third bid for the company, while a number of private equity...
...publishing division....
...British music group....
...EMI is considering restructuring its debt, loading more borrowings on to its music publishing division, in a move that could make the UK music company less vulnerable to a takeover by private equity....
...Warner Music covets the UK group’s recorded music operations but regulators would not allow the two groups’ music publishing operations to merge....
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