Downtown Taps Peter Rosenthal as General Counsel

New York, NY, August 21, 2018 -- Downtown has appointed Peter Rosenthal as General Counsel.

In his role, Rosenthal will oversee all aspects of the worldwide legal and business affairs for Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust?, and Downtown Music Studios, including publishing, administration, license agreements and other transactional matters, acquisitions, global policy, enforcement, and corporate matters. Based in New York, Rosenthal reports to Downtown's Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Bergman.

"Peter and I have been working together for more than a decade. When I joined Downtown, he became the outside advisor with whom we entrusted much of the complicated legal work involved in building our dynamic, global business," said Bergman. "When we decided it was time to bring on a dedicated GC onto the management team, it was one of the easiest decisions we've ever had to make. Peter's breadth of experience, coupled with his analytical nature and his easy way of managing people throughout the organization, has and will continue to have a profound impact on the success of our businesses."

Rosenthal has more than twenty years of experience counseling clients in the entertainment, new media, technology, and fashion and luxury goods industries, and structuring, negotiating, and documenting a wide array of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property agreements and transactions. Prior to Downtown, he was a partner in the New York office of the law firm Ritholz Levy Fields LLP, where he'd spent more than thirteen years. Before joining the firm, Rosenthal's diverse background included roles at Playboy.com, Inc., Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, and the Entrepreneurial Services Group of Bingham, Dana & Gould.

Rosenthal is an occasional guest speaker on copyright at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and contributor to articles on copyright matters. He holds degrees from Oberlin College and Boston University School of Law.

About Downtown

Established in 2007, Downtown is an integrated music copyright management, investment, and technology company operating in the world's major media centers under the brands Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust?, and Downtown Music Studios. Downtown Music Publishing offers bespoke creative publishing services to some of the world's most beloved songwriters and storied catalogs including The Beatles, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Hans Zimmer, The Kinks, One Direction, Mötley Crüe, Sturgill Simpson, Mos Def, Santigold, Carla Bruni, and Social Distortion. Songtrust, the world's most popular rights management platform, powers royalty collection from over 100 territories and more than 20,000 unique income sources worldwide. Today, over 100,000 individual songwriters and music publishers utilize the platform to manage their licensing and royalty collection. Downtown Music Studios, a professional multi-room recording facility located in Manhattan's Soho district, has contributed to the creation of some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful sound recordings of the past decade.