Lisa Alter is a founding partner at Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP in New York City. Her practice primarily focuses on transactions involving the acquisition and sale of significant music assets. This includes conducting thorough due diligence and copyright analyses, as well as negotiating and finalizing complex stock and asset purchase agreements. Lisa represents a variety of clients, including prominent major and independent music publishing companies, record labels, equity investors, lenders, and financing partners within the music industry.
Lisa’s clientele also encompasses a wide range of bespoke songwriters, recording artists, producers, and musical estates that represent the successors of many renowned composers and lyricists from the American songbook. Her clients include numerous inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, along with recipients of Grammy and Ivor Novello Awards.
An active speaker, Lisa frequently lectures on copyright issues at professional and music industry conferences in both the US and the UK. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, teaching a course on the Law and Business of Music. Additionally, she has authored many articles on music publishing and copyright matters, including the widely referenced “Protecting Your Musical Copyrights” in the music publishing industry.
Lisa is consistently recognized in Billboard’s “Top Music Lawyers” and “Power” lists, as well as in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report,” “Dealmakers Impact Report,” “New York Women’s Impact Report,” and “New York Dealmakers Elite.” Furthermore, she has been honored as one of Billboard’s “Women in Music: Executives of the Year,” The Hollywood Reporter’s “New York Power Lawyers,” and was named U.S. News & World Report’s New York City “Best Lawyer of the Year” in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Entertainment Law – Music.