Lisa Alter is highly regarded for her representation of clients in the acquisition, sale, and securitization of significant music assets. As part of her practice, she renders sophisticated strategic advice on deal structure and risk mitigation, conducts in-depth legal due diligence and copyright analyses, negotiates, drafts, and closes complex stock and asset purchase agreements, and acts as music counsel to originators, issuers, and investors in asset backed securitizations. She represents many major and independent music publishing companies, record labels, equity investors, lenders, and financing partners in the music space, and is a sought-after advisor in many of the most high-profile recent transactions in the music industry.

In addition, Ms. Alter’s clients include a large number of bespoke songwriters, recording artists, and producers as well as the musical estates comprising the successors to many of the great American songbook composers and lyricists. Among her clients are numerous inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fames and recipients of Grammy and Ivor Novello Awards.

Ms. Alter lectures frequently on best practices in investing in music assets, as well as copyright issues in general, at professional and music industry meetings in both the US and the UK. She is an annual presenter at the prestigious Music Investor Conference in New York City and has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School where she taught a course on the Law and Business of Music.

Ms. Alter is perennially recognized in Billboard’s “Top Music Lawyers” and “Power” lists, as well as Variety’s “Legal Impact Report,” “Dealmakers Impact Report,” “New York Women’s Impact Report,” and “New York Dealmakers Elite.” She was named the U.S. News & World Report’s New York City “Best Lawyer of the Year - 2023” in the practice area of Entertainment Law – Music and has been honored by Forbes on its “America’s Top Lawyers List” in each of 2025 and 2024. She has also been named as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “New York Power Lawyers,” and Billboard’s “Women in Music: Executives of the Year.”