Senior Manager - Legal & Business Affairs

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Senior Manager – Legal & Business Affairs

Join BMG’s dynamic team as a Senior Manager – Legal & Business Affairs and take on a crucial role in delivering comprehensive legal support to the UK LBA team. You will be instrumental in addressing all legal facets of BMG’s recorded music and music publishing operations, ensuring our business thrives in an ever-evolving industry.

Key Responsibilities.

• Negotiating new offers and drafting, reviewing and negotiating long-form agreements across recorded music and music publishing business divisions, including:
  • Exclusive song writing agreements, administration agreements, side letters & amendments, novation agreements, writer buy-out agreements, joint venture agreements and sub-publishing agreements.
  • Exclusive recording agreements, producer, mixer and featured artist agreements, video agreements, artwork & photographer agreements.
  • Assisting with more complex synch agreements.
• Advising on intellectual property rights for recorded music, compositions, and other creative assets.
• Reviewing and negotiating controlled compositions’ provisions.
• Assisting Legal and Business Affairs team with new areas of business as and when necessary.
• Assisting various departments with day-to-day queries, such as:
  • Royalties and Copyright: interpreting contracts, assisting with disputes, drafting side letters;
  • Finance: verification and approval of invoices, payment of advances etc;
  • A&R: assisting with formulation and structuring of new deal proposals;
  • Investments: working closely with the Investments Team on structuring deals to meet BMG’s investment requirements and assisting with the BMG investment approval process;
  • Operations: providing contractual information, agreement templates and interpreting contracts.

Your Profile.

• Experience working as a music lawyer (whether in-house or in private practice) in a wide variety of areas relating to the music industry.
• Extensive experience negotiating and drafting complex recording and publishing agreements.
• A strategic thinker and creative problem solver, with the ability to persuade and build consensus.
• A candidate who has the ability to have a local focus, whilst understanding the bigger global strategic vision.
• Extensive contacts and strong relationships within the music industry is advantageous.
• We’re seeking a candidate with strong interest in music and the music business, and a keen interest in law concerning the music industry.

It’s a plus if you have experience working in dispute resolution, and / or you’ve previously worked at a major music publisher or large independent record label.

Now, what’s in it for you?

• 25 days pro-rated annual leave, plus 3 days between Christmas & New Year and an extra day for your birthday!
• Flexible working opportunities.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• Private Health Insurance.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• All parents, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will receive 6 months of fully paid parental leave.
• Annual gig allowance.
• Artist showcases.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season Ticket Loan.
• Workplace Nursery Scheme.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Give As You Earn Scheme.
• A fun and sociable office environment.

Are you interested? Follow the link to apply!

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BMG – est. 2008 – is the world’s fourth-biggest music company, the first new global player in the music business of the streaming age, and a record label and music publisher in one. Named in 2020 one of the world’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, BMG’s pitch is unique – a relentless focus on fairness and transparency and service to its artist and songwriter clients. BMG’s 20 offices across 12 core music markets now represent over three million songs and recordings, including many of the most renowned and successful catalogs in popular music history.

BMG’s fresh approach includes production music, films, books, artist management, merchandise, neighboring rights, and live as well as music publishing and recordings off the same service platform. BMG is owned by international media, services and education company Bertelsmann, whose other content businesses include the broadcaster RTL Group, the trade book publisher Penguin Random House and the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr. With its multi-platform perspective, integrated technology platform and commitment to help artists maximize their income, BMG aims to be the best company in music to do business with.

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