{"id":178996,"date":"2025-08-14T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/more-catalog-deal-firepower-searchlight-capital-joins-umg-invests-in-chord-music-partners\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:12:40","slug":"more-catalog-deal-firepower-searchlight-capital-joins-umg-invests-in-chord-music-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/more-catalog-deal-firepower-searchlight-capital-joins-umg-invests-in-chord-music-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"More Catalog Deal Firepower: Searchlight Capital Joins UMG, Invests in Chord Music\u00a0Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tChord Music Partners<\/strong> said on Thursday that global private investment firm Searchlight<\/strong> Capital Partners<\/strong> joined Universal Music Group as a strategic investor in its music rights acquisition and management <\/strong>venture.<\/p>\n

\n\tFormed in 2021 through an inital partnership with KKR, Chord owns more than 60,000 copyrights, including stakes in the Fleetwood Mac<\/strong> hits \u201cDreams\u201d and \u201cLandslide,\u201d the catalog of OneRepublic<\/strong> frontman Ryan Tedder<\/strong>, and most recently acquired a 49% stake of Big Loud\u2019s stake in Morgan Wallen<\/strong>\u2018s early masters.<\/a> As of 2024, Chord is majority owned by Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, and UMG has an equity stake worth more than 26%. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe investment of funds managed by Searchlight, a firm with more than\u00a0$18 billion in assets under management, will help Chord find and execute on recorded music and publishing rights acquisitions faster to achieve greater scale, according to a statement from the companies. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSearchlight\u2019s expertise, network and ability to meaningfully contribute toward expanding Chord\u2019s premier [intellectual property] portfolio make Searchlight an ideal strategic partner for our next chapter,\u201d Sam Hendel, Dundee Partners\u2019 managing principal and co-founder of Chord, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tSearchlight partner Darren Glatt said they were attracted to Chord\u2019s diversified platform and its portfolio of rights to works by The Weeknd, Lorde and David Guetta, which he said has \u201cevolved Chord into the desired home for the works and legacies of the world\u2019s premier artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe joint investment and catalog management platform model has become a popular way for major music companies to aggressively bid for highly desireable music rights in a way that minimizes their reliance on their own balance sheet. Assets that are bought through Chord, like Big Loud\u2019s share of the masters to Morgan Wallen\u2019s first couple albums, are administered through Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and recorded music through UMG\u2019s Virgin Music Group (VMG).<\/p>\n

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\n\tWarner Music Group revealed a similarly structured joint venture with Bain Capital worth $1.2 billion thi ssummer, of which Warner owns 50% and earns revenue from managing, marketing and administering the assets.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoyd Muir, chief operating officer at UMG, which recently invested an additional 30 million euros in Chord, said Chord is part of their long-term strategic investment plans. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe structure is working exactly as we envisioned \u2013 enabling us to move quickly to acquire high-quality catalogs, without significant capital allocation over time,\u201d UMG Chief Operating Officer Boyd Muir said on a call last month discussing the company\u2019s quarterly earnings<\/a>. \u201cChord is successfully raising capital and building a strong deal pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSearchlight was advised on this transaction by Lazard and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chord Music Partners said on Thursday that global private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners joined Universal Music Group as a strategic investor in its music rights acquisition and management venture. Formed in 2021 through an inital partnership with KKR, Chord owns more than 60,000 copyrights, including stakes in the Fleetwood Mac hits \u201cDreams\u201d and \u201cLandslide,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}