Ziffren Brittenham LLP is still the best Music Law Firm

Music News Website “Hits Daily Double” has just done an article stated that Ziffren Brittenham LLP is the music’s hottest law firm.

The law firm has shaped the modern music publishing industry thanks to John Branca, said the article.

“Branca’s longtime representation of Michael Jackson and his Estate include landmark deals like Jackson’s acquisitions of ATV Music and The Beatles catalog, and then representing Jackson in creating the merger of Sony/ATV, which included a seat on the board of directors.

He represented Sony/ATV in the $2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music, creating the world’s largest music-publishing company, and handled for EMI the divestiture sale of Virgin Music. Branca also represented legendary music publishing catalog sales from Berry Gordy’s Jobete Music, Leiber & Stoller Music and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.

More recent deals include the sale of the Michael Jackson Estate’s interest in Sony/ATV for $750m and the sale of the Jackson Estate’s interest in EMI Music for $287m. Also, Branca closed IP/catalog deals for clients Brian Wilson and Leonard Cohen, along with Primary Wave’s acquisition of James Brown’s catalog, Enrique Iglesias, The Doors, Limp Bizkit, and Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees.

All told, Branca’s recent IP catalog deals exceed $4b.”

The article also go through the other 7 lawyers in the firm, you can read it here.

A perfect ego boost for Branca as he started to be more and more present in the spot light instead of his famous clients.