Lisa Alter

Lisa Alter is a founding partner of Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP. Alter is highly regarded for her representation of clients in the acquisition, sale, and securitization of significant music assets. As part of her practice, she renders sophisticated strategic advice on deal structure and risk mitigation, conducts in-depth legal due diligence and copyright analyses, negotiates, drafts, and closes complex stock and asset purchase agreements, and acts as music counsel to originators, issuers, and investors in asset backed securitizations. She represents many major and independent music publishing companies, record labels, equity investors, lenders, and financing partners in the music space, and is a sought-after advisor in many of the most high-profile recent transactions in the music industry. 

Additionally, Alter’s clients include a large number of iconic songwriters, recording artists, and producers as well as the musical estates comprising the successors to many of the great American songbook composers and lyricists. Alter lectures frequently on best practices in investing in music assets, as well as copyright issues, at professional and music industry meetings in both the US and the UK. She is an annual presenter at the Music Investor Conference and has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.