Michael Poster
Chair of Music Acquisitions & Financing and Partner
Michelman Robinson
Michael Poster is Music Acquisitions and Financing Chair and Managing Partner in Michelman Robinson’s New York Office, where he specializes in catalog acquisitions, corporate M&A, debt and equity financing transactions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and other deals where the music industry and corporate dealmaking converge.
As a transactional attorney with over 25 years’ experience, Michael has successfully structured, negotiated, and closed a broad range of corporate deals with an emphasis on the music industry. Michael’s music catalog experience spans the length of his career, and includes buy-side and sell-side catalog transactions across nearly every deal size, rights type, and genre in the marketplace, and involves clients including major and independent labels, private-equity backed buyers, top industry executives, hit-making songwriters, and key sources of debt and equity financing. He has been named in Billboard’s annual list of Top Music Lawyers each year from 2018 through 2025 and has been included among its listing of top legal dealmakers in music catalog transactions. Michael has also been recognized as a “Power Lawyer in Music” by The Hollywood Reporter, included in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report,” and recognized by his peers in both “Best Lawyers” and “Super Lawyers.”
Michael is honored to have served as chairman of the Mondo.NYC annual CLE event, and has previously been chair of other NY-based entertainment and media law programs for more than 10 years. In addition, he has spoken and published articles on copyright, corporate finance, entertainment, and licensing issues and is frequently quoted on music and copyright law issues in Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, Axios, Law360, Forbes, Bloomberg, World IP Review, and other publications.
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Sector Five: IP Valuation
Pricing the Catalog: How Music Asset Valuation Is Evolving
As global capital continues to flow into music rights, the frameworks used to value these assets are rapidly evolving. What once appeared to be a straightforward yield play has grown more nuanced, shaped by shifting revenue mixes, macroeconomic pressures, and expanding interest in indie and genre-specific IP. This session examines how valuation perspectives have changed since the post-pandemic acquisition boom—and how advisors and dealmakers are redefining price, structure, and expectations in today’s market.