Hayley Silvertown
Paul Hastings
Of Counsel
Hayley Silvertown joined Paul Hastings in January 2025 to help launch the firm’s Music Industry practice. A core leader of the group, she advises and leads many investors, financial institutions, and strategic buyers on complex, high-value transactions across the music and broader content ecosystem.
Hayley is widely recognized for her ability to structure and execute transformative deals involving music assets as an investable asset class. Her experience spans buy- and sell-side catalog acquisitions, platform-level investments, acquisitions of music companies, and sophisticated joint ventures. She regularly advises private equity sponsors, asset managers, and strategic investors on capital deployment strategies, diligence, and structuring considerations unique to music rights and royalty-driven businesses and serves as a primary adviser to some of the industry’s most iconic companies.
Her practice spans the full lifecycle of music and content-related transactions, from headline-making deals to day-to-day industry matters. She negotiates recording and publishing agreements, producer and mixer agreements, podcast and content licensing arrangements, label imprint deals and other joint venture arrangements, branding and endorsement agreements, composer agreements for film and television, video games and other media, live performance agreements for music festivals, one-off events, and multi-stop tours.
Over the past year, Hayley has advised on more than $2 billion in music catalog acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and asset-backed transactions, positioning her at the center of significant capital flows into the sector and at the forefront of the institutionalization of music as an asset class.