Round Hill Music Royalty Partners, a private equity firm dedicated to investing in music copyrights, has acquired the producer royalties and related rights of music producer Steve Lillywhite. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Round Hill Music Royalty Partners (Round Hill Music), a private equity firm dedicated to investing in music copyrights, has acquired the producer royalties and related rights of music producer Steve Lillywhite. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Lillywhite has produced or contributed to more than 500 records in a career spanning over four decades working with artists including U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Dave Matthews Band, The Talking Heads, David Byrne, Phish, and Counting Crows, among others. In 2005, he won the Grammy for Producer of The Year and was the producer for U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album, respectively, also in 2005. He won Grammys in 2001 and 2000 for his work on U2’s Walk On (Record of the Year) and Beautiful Day (Record of the Year), respectively.
This transaction follows the most active year in Round Hill Music’s 12-year history, with the firm having invested more than $200 million across more than 40 acquisitions in 2022.
