Turn a lifetime of work into
long-term capital.
You wrote, produced or performed the work. You own the royalties. At some point in a career, it is reasonable to want liquidity — without losing the identity of what you built.
A partner who understands the music before the spreadsheet.
Selling a catalog is not the same as selling a house. It is an act of trust. The wrong buyer will optimise your life's work into something unrecognisable. The right buyer will protect it, grow it, and leave the reputation intact.
We built North Vale to be the right buyer. Our underwriting is institutional, but our instincts are from the music business. Every catalog that enters our portfolio stays there — we are not flipping anything.
Common reasons artists speak with us.
Estate & tax planning
Convert a long-duration royalty stream into a structured liquidity event that your family and advisors can actually plan around.
Funding the next project
Capitalise the work that is already earning to fund the studio, the tour, the label, or the company you want to build next.
Exiting an old deal
Legacy label, publisher or manager agreement you no longer want? We can help structure a clean exit alongside the sale.
Diversification
If the majority of your net worth is tied to a single catalog, a partial sale is a legitimate portfolio decision.
Peace of mind
Confidence that the work will be collected, audited and defended to institutional standards for the long term.
Clean succession
Complicated estates, multiple heirs, co-writers? We handle complexity — that is the job.
Flexible structures, clean paper.
Full sale, partial sale, advance against future earnings — the structure follows your goals, not the other way around.
Outright purchase of your writer, publishing, master and producer interests. Single transaction, single counterparty.
Sell a defined percentage and retain the rest — useful if you want liquidity but not a full exit.
A single song, an album, or a subset of your catalog. We are happy to underwrite a narrow deal if it is the right fit.
A defined advance structured against a portion of future royalty income, with clean recoupment terms.
Our commitments — in writing, every time.
- A written indicative valuation you can discuss with advisors before committing to anything.
- A single point of contact from first call through closing — no hand-offs, no account-manager carousel.
- Plain-English documentation with no surprise clauses buried in schedules.
- Payment terms that are met on the day, not in tranches that stretch across quarters.
- Ongoing access after the sale. If you have questions about your old catalog in ten years, we will answer them.
Tell us what you own.
A short confidential note is enough to get started. We respond to every serious enquiry.