Lisa Alter is a founding partner of Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP in New York City. Lisa 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 prominent 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, Lisa’s clients include a large number of bespoke songwriters, recording artists, and producers as well as musical estates comprising the successors to many of the great American songbook composer and lyricists. Among her clients are numerous inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and recipients of Grammy and Ivor Novello Awards.
Lisa lectures frequently on copyright issues at professional and music industry meetings in both the US and the UK. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School where she taught a course on the Law and Business of Music, and has written numerous articles addressing music publishing and copyright matters.
Lisa is perennially recognized in Billboard’s “Top Music Lawyers” list, as well as Variety’s “Legal Impact Report,” “Dealmakers Impact Report,” “New York Women’s Impact Report,” “Music Legal Elite Report,” and “New York Dealmakers Elite Report.” She was named the New York City “Lawyer of the Year - 2023” by The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Entertainment Law – Music and was honored by Forbes on its 2026, 2025, and 2024 “America’s Top Lawyers” lists, as well as Forbes’ inaugural “America’s Top Women Lawyers” list in 2026. She has also been named among The Hollywood Reporter’s “Top Music Lawyers” and “New York Power Lawyers,” and to Billboard’s “Women in Music: Executives of the Year” and “Power” lists. Additionally, Lisa is recognized by Chambers USA as a Star Individual – the highest individual ranking in Chambers – in the category of Media and Entertainment: Music (New York).
