David Dunn

David Dunn is a founding member and the managing partner of Shot Tower Capital LLC, a leading music industry-focused investment banking and advisory firm. Mr. Dunn has completed in excess of 125 merger and acquisition and financing transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $90 billion. Mr. Dunn has valued numerous music publishers, music labels, and catalogs for both corporate and estate tax matters.

Mr. Dunn started his investment banking career at Deutsche Bank/Alex. Brown and has focused exclusively on the media sector since 1998. Prior to entering the field of investment banking, David was a corporate attorney at Hogan Lovells and an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Fine Art from Bucknell University and received a JD summa cum laude from The American University Washington College of Law. David is a member of the Maryland Bar (non-practicing), and a FINRA General Securities Registered Representative and Principal (Series 7, 24, 62, 63, 79).

Mr. Dunn is widely regarded as an expert in music industry finance and has been included on the Billboard Power 100 list comprised of the 100 most powerful executives in the music industry in multiple years and was peer nominated as one of the top 20 most influential music executives in 2023, 2024 and 2025 and was featured in Billboard’s inaugural finance 50 list in January 2026.  He has advised on many of the largest music purchase and sale transactions of the last decade. Select recent music industry experience includes representing Blackstone in the sale of select Hipgnosis Music Fund Assets, the Hipgnosis Music Fund in its sale to Blackstone, Mavin Records in its sale to Universal Music Group, the Estate of Michael J. Jackson in the formation of a new joint venture with Sony Music, the sale of Phil Collins, Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics Catalogs to Concord Music Group, the financing of Position Music by Vesper Company, the formation of a new recorded music joint venture between Concord Music Group and Pulse Music, the sale of the James Brown catalog by the Estate of James Brown to Primary Wave, the sale of EMI Music Publishing to Sony Corporation, the sale of Imagem Music to Concord Music Group, the sale of the Estate of Michael J. Jackson’s 50% interest in Sony/ATV Music Publishing (including the Beatles’ songbook) to Sony Corporation, and the purchase of EMI Music Publishing from Citigroup by an investor consortium.