Earlier this 12 months, Sony Music Publishing (SMP) teamed up with US-based personal funding agency Area Capital Group to accumulate a career-spanning catalog from Ashley Gorley – one of the crucial profitable nation music songwriters of the final 20 years.
MBW understands that Sony x Area’s catalog cope with Gorley carried a price ticket within the area of $40 million.
Since that acquisition was introduced, Area Capital Group has been largely quiet so far as the music trade is anxious. Till at this time.
Area and its subsidiary, Area Capital Advisors (DCA), have simply introduced that they’ve closed greater than $700 million of fairness commitments for a brand new leisure fund and co-investment automobile targeted on movie, tv, and music.
In a press launch asserting the information, Atlanta-based Area says that it has already deployed greater than $170 million of this new fund for offers throughout leisure media.
In accordance with its web site, as of June 30, 2022, Area managed roughly $8.4 billion in whole belongings by means of its two registered subsidiaries, Area Capital Advisors, LLC and Area Timber Advisors, LLC.
Area mentioned in a press launch issued on Tuesday (November 1), that the newest fund follows its profitable deployment of an $830 million separate account launched in 2012, which targeted totally on movie and tv belongings.
In accordance with Area, its DCA subsidiary’s media and leisure group makes a speciality of belongings together with digital media, function movies, tv, literary works, music publishing and recording rights, and theatrical productions.
Moreover, in line with the press launch issued by Area, the fund additionally participates in “long-term partnerships in quite a lot of buildings so as to help the creation of recent content material”.
Area and Sony, for instance, revealed in Might that they’d agreed an unique go-forward cope with songwriter Ashley Gorley, enabling the acquisition of rights in music he composes over the subsequent few years.
DCA explains additional that its funding technique in media and leisure portfolios focuses on acquisitions “predominantly supposed to ship cash-on-cash returns with a low correlation to the broader market”.
“We’re excited to launch our first diversified personal leisure royalty fund.”
Anthony Tittanegro, Area Capital Group
Anthony Tittanegro, Govt Managing Director of Area Capital Group, mentioned: “We’re excited to launch our first diversified personal leisure royalty fund.
“At a time of sustained leisure trade progress supported by an ever-evolving panorama of distribution channels, we’re targeted on constructing a diversified asset-base to generate money yield and assist keep our traders’ capital.”
“We consider within the long-term worth of those belongings and are purposeful about every funding and its connection to the creator in addition to our broader portfolio.”
Pete Chiappetta, Area Capital
Pete Chiappetta, Managing Director of DCA’s media, leisure, and know-how enterprise, added: “We consider within the long-term worth of those belongings and are purposeful about every funding and its connection to the creator in addition to our broader portfolio.
“We contemplate this a structurally artistic and versatile method to attain our funding objectives whereas additionally assembly the wants of our transaction companions.”
Keel Harbour Capital acted because the fund’s placement agent and Sheppard Mullin served as authorized advisor for DCA.Music Enterprise Worldwide
