Los Angeles-based funding agency Shamrock Capital has acquired a portfolio of movie, tv, and music rights from Vine Various Investments Group.
Lengthy-time MBW readers will keep in mind Vine as the corporate that acquired a catalog of greater than 150 songs from Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum-selling producer, songwriter, and DJ Calvin Harris in 2020. MBW sources have steered that Vine paid within the area of $105 million for Harris’s music portfolio.
In complete, the portfolio of rights acquired by Shamrock from Vine – together with that Calvin Harris catalog – delivers Shamrock possession curiosity in additional than 550 characteristic movies, over 2,000 hours of tv programming and over 450 songs.
The deal’s worth was undisclosed. Nonetheless, citing Shamrock Associate Patrick Russo, the Wall Road Journal says it marks Shamrock’s largest-ever particular person transaction by way of its Content material Technique vertical, which was established round a decade in the past.
In line with Russo, by way of the WSJ, the property acquired as a part of the Vine deal carry Shamrock’s holdings to ‘greater than 1,000 movies and 3,000 hours of TV and nicely in extra of 20,000 musical compositions’.
Shamrock Capital is, in fact, finest recognized for shopping for the grasp rights to Taylor Swift’s first six studio albums from Ithaca Holdings in November 2020. Sources have since instructed MBW that deal value Shamrock within the area of $405 million.
In January 2023, Billboard reported that Shamrock – alongside Common Music Group – was certainly one of two patrons of Dr. Dre’s music property, with round $200 million altering fingers in complete.
In February final 12 months, Shamrock raised greater than $600 million in commitments for its Shamrock Capital Content material Fund III (SCCF III) – the third fairness fund for its Content material Technique.
Shamrock’s Patrick Russo mentioned on the time that Shamrock would use the funds “to capitalize on the developments, adjustments, and alternatives throughout the worldwide media and leisure panorama.”
On the time (in February 2023), Shamrock reported that, together with the SCCF III commitments, its Content material Technique had reached $2 billion in AUM.
In line with the WSJ, the Vine portfolio transaction brings the worth of Shamrock’s Content material Technique property to roughly $2.4 billion.
In reference to the Shamrock transaction, an affiliate of Shamrock Capital has entered right into a servicing association with HighPoint Media Advisors, a newly shaped media advisory firm led by former Vine Principals, Stephen Kovach and Invoice Lambert.
Separate and unrelated to the transaction with Shamrock, Vine mentioned it’ll pivot its consideration to the “rising sector of impartial content material manufacturing”, persevering with to supervise its improvement and manufacturing studios Village Roadshow Leisure Group (VREG) and EuropaCorp.
“As Shamrock’s Content material Technique continues to broaden, we’re thrilled so as to add this exceptional portfolio to our present platform of premium content material.”
Patrick Russo, Shamrock
Discussing the Vine acquisition, Patrick Russo, Associate and Govt Committee Member at Shamrock Capital, mentioned: “Jim, Invoice and Stephen have been early movers within the leisure royalty sector and, over time, curated a formidable portfolio of movie and tv libraries and music catalogues which can be timeless and maintain deep cultural significance.
“As Shamrock’s Content material Technique continues to broaden, we’re thrilled so as to add this exceptional portfolio to our present platform of premium content material.”
“This acquisition solely strengthens our dedication to the filmed leisure and music industries.”
Jason Sklar, Shamrock Capital
Jason Sklar, Associate and Govt Committee Member at Shamrock Capital, added: “We’re long-term believers in content material. This acquisition solely strengthens our dedication to the filmed leisure and music industries, and we sit up for collaborating with our main studio and music publishing companions to maximise the affect and enduring worth of those distinctive works.”
“We’re delighted to have labored with Shamrock on this landmark transaction.”
Jim Moore, Vine Various Investments
Jim Moore, CEO of Vine Various Investments, mentioned: “We’re delighted to have labored with Shamrock on this landmark transaction. We imagine their skilled stewardship of those property will permit Vine to pay attention our concentrate on investments in impartial content material creation.”
Lambert and Kovach in a joint assertion: “That is an thrilling new relationship for the HighPoint workforce, and we glance ahead towards to deepening our relationship with Shamrock Capital as we work intently with them on the long-lasting portfolio we constructed over the previous decade.”
Latham & Watkins LLP served as authorized advisor to Shamrock on the transaction. Salem Companions LLC served as monetary advisor and Paul Hastings LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as authorized counsel to Vine on the transaction. O’Melveny & Myers LLP served as authorized counsel to HighPoint Media Advisors on the transaction.
Elsewhere at Shamrock, in June 2021, the corporate closed a $1 billion progress fund referred to as Shamrock Capital Progress Fund V, and a month later it raised one other $400 million for a fund to put money into leisure IP, together with music copyrights. It additionally raised $196 million to supply mortgage constructions to IP homeowners.
Vine, which was based in 2006, has invested round $1.3 billion of capital within the media and leisure sector thus far, throughout greater than 26 transactions.Music Enterprise Worldwide
