Robert Sherman and Claire Hall named to Variety’s 2025 Dealmakers Impact Report

In just one of their transactions over the past year, the duo secured $200 million in new debt financing for independent music rights purchas­ers Duetti, but that’s small potatoes compared to the $3 billion worth of asset-backed music-securitization notes they brokered in fiscal 2025 for such clients as Concord Music, HarbourView Equity Partners and others. In fact, $1.77 billion of that went to Concord, secured by a cat­alog of 1.3 million copyrights that includes songs by the Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, and others.

What’s drawing the dollars: “Insti­tutional investors like insurance companies and pension funds look­ing for long-term assets that throw off a predictable income stream over long periods of time,” explains Sherman.