Robert Law
Co-Founder & Partner
Shot Tower Capital
Robert Law is a co-founder and Partner of Shot Tower Capital. Mr. Law devotes the majority of his efforts to assisting and advising clients within the media, entertainment and related business services focusing on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raises and structuring, leveraged buyouts and restructuring transactions. Mr. Law is also a co-founder of RedBrick Advisors, a specialized valuation firm dedicated to the music and broader entertainment industry.
Having worked on more than 50 completed transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $14 billion, Mr. Law has advised clients, including financial sponsors, on both buy side and sell side M&A transactions as well equity and debt capital raising activities. Mr. Law has been recognized on the Billboard Power 100 list multiple times.
Mr. Law’s notable engagements have included: the sale of Hipgnosis Songs Fund to Blackstone; financial advisor to Michael Jackson & The Estate of Michael Jackson in connection with ownership stakes in various assets, including The Beatles Catalog, Mijac Music, and EMI; the acquisitions of Famous Music and EMI Music Publishing by Sony/ATV Music Publishing; the sale of majority interest in Mavin Records to UMG; the sales of Imagem BV, Fania Records, Hitco, and Mojo Music to Concord as well as the purchase of the music publishing and recorded music catalogs of Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford including Genesis, Phil Collins solo works and Mike+Mechanics by Concord; the sale of the James Brown catalog by the Estate of James Brown to Primary Wave; the sale of Big Deal Music and the Al Jackson Jr. catalog to Hipgnosis, the catalog sale and JV partnership of Pulse Music Group; the restructuring of mattress retailer, Select Comfort; the sale of the Crosstown Song to BMG Rights Management, a joint venture partnership between Bertelsmann AG and KKR; the sale of a Sea Island Corporation’s majority equity stake in Luxury Apparel designer, Peter Millar, to Winona Capital; the sale of Midwest Wireless to Alltel; and the sale of certain music publishing assets by Sony and Mubadala Development Company, among others.
Mr. Law graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. Mr. Law is a General Securities Registered Representative with FINRA (Series 7, 24, 63, and 79).
Mr. Law serves on the investment committee of the Calvert School Alumni Board.
1:30pm
Sector Three: Distribution, Consumption & Data
Where the Data Leads: Forecasting the Future of Music Demand
This session looks at cross-platform behavior, trends and forward-looking forecasting, exploring how distribution models are evolving and where scale and margin are being created in the areas of music discovery, streaming subscription growth, live demand, IP supply strategy etc. We'll address how investors can position portfolios to benefit from the industry’s next phase of growth.

