Music Catalog Acquisition & Exit Counsel.
Legal diligence and royalty-operations analysis for family offices, PE sponsors, and catalog owners buying or selling music assets. I help clients test ownership, splits, registrations, termination exposure, royalty history, and cash-flow assumptions before a deal is priced, signed, or closed.
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Counsel for the moments capital is moving.
A diligence workstream, not a separate practice.
For catalog and media-library transactions with AI exposure, I review training-data rights, voice and likeness permissions, platform terms, user-data flows, consent architecture, third-party model dependencies, indemnity scope, and transferability of rights.
Recent transactional work.
Catalog M&A
Multi-year buy-side and sell-side counsel on music catalog transactions for a catalog investor, including diligence, deal modeling, post-closing royalty operations, and execution of catalog dispositions across publishing and master recordings.
Copyright termination
Termination and reversion analysis under §§203 and 304 in multiple matters across publishing and recording rights, several proceeding from termination notice through negotiated catalog sale on behalf of estate and individual artist clients.
Royalty recovery and audit
Counterparty negotiation, demand-letter work, and audit support to recover unpaid royalties on behalf of artist and producer clients.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Contract analysis tied to royalty operations. I’ve built deal models, corrected registrations, recovered underpayments, and mapped termination exposure across the catalog lifecycle. The contract has to agree with the cash flow.
Ted Hall is a New York attorney and former royalty director at mtheory (now Virgin Music Label & Artist Services).
Before founding Hall Music Law, he built royalty reporting infrastructure, reconciled income across major collection sources, supported catalog valuation and diligence, and managed royalty audits.
He brings contract analysis plus the operating details that drive catalog cash flow: rights data, registrations, royalty statements, termination exposure, and payment history.
- 2021–The Law Office of Theodore Hall PLLC · Attorney
- 2014–2020mtheory / Virgin Music Label & Artist Services · Royalty Director
- 2011–2014Rob Shore & Associates · Business Manager
- 2005–2010The New Group · Mark Morris Dance Group · Business Operations
New matters and inquiries.
Inquiries are welcome across buy-side diligence, sell-side positioning, and royalty administration. Initial conversations are by appointment and confidential.
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New York, NY 10025 (by appointment)
Initial conversations are by appointment and confidential.