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Joint Venture & Partnership Structuring Guidance
Experienced guidance on structuring joint ventures and label partnerships that actually work.
Joint ventures, imprint deals, and label partnerships fail more often from unclear structure than from bad music. This service helps your label design partnerships before signing them: defining each party’s contributions and decision rights, revenue and cost allocation, ownership of masters and brand, creative control boundaries, reporting obligations, and the exit and dispute provisions that protect everyone when circumstances change.
Guidance is practical and experience-based. We work through scenarios — a hit record, a flop, a partner who stops performing, an artist who wants out — and test whether the proposed structure handles each one fairly. The result is a clear term framework your label can take to its attorneys for drafting, with the commercial logic already settled.
Ruben Burgos, UMG’s Architect & Founder, provides this guidance personally, drawing on a career spent building organizations and partnerships across entertainment and media. His direct involvement gives your label a seasoned counterpart who has sat on multiple sides of structures like these — this is strategic business guidance, complementing rather than replacing your legal counsel.
The Objective
To enter partnerships with clear economics, clear authority, and clear exits. The goal is structures that survive success and disappointment alike, protecting your label’s assets and relationships.
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