Michael Poster is one of the nation’s top music dealmakers, advising on mergers, acquisitions, financings, and catalog transactions that continue to redefine the global music industry.

With a rare blend of corporate transactional experience and deep industry insight, Michael helps clients close transactions spanning music publishing, recorded rights, and entertainment finance. The firm’s Music Acquisitions & Financing Chair, he is among the most active attorneys in the secondary sales market, having pioneered a transaction model now widely used throughout the industry. In 2024 alone, Michael was central to more than $600 million in secondary music catalog sales—likely the most of any lawyer in the space.

His deal sheet includes confidential transactions ranging from $5 million to $1 billion, involving music-focused investment firms, catalog buyers and sellers, and financial institutions. These engagements span both U.S. and cross-border deals and have included asset-based financings backed by intellectual property, as well as complex multi-party sales and recapitalizations. Recently, Michael played a key role in a billion-dollar joint venture with one of the world’s largest media companies involving music rights tied to nearly a century of television and film content.

In addition to his music-related work, Michael advises private and public companies on corporate transactions across industries including advertising, technology, apparel, insurance, and financial services. His broader practice includes venture financings, private equity transactions, debt and equity raises, and executive employment arrangements. Michael’s clients include private equity firms, institutional lenders, and strategic investors seeking commercially grounded counsel in complex, high-value deals.

Michael is also a frequent speaker and writer on corporate finance, copyright, and music transactions. In addition, he serves as CLE Chairman for Mondo.NYC—an international summit of music and tech industry insiders, innovators, and emerging artists—where he helps shape dialogue on the evolving business of music.