PRIMARY WAVE IP INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC other names

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Adviser Profile

As of Date:

05/17/2024

Adviser Type:

- Large advisory firm


Number of Employees:

2

of those in investment advisory functions:

2


Registration:

SEC, Approved, 8/28/2017

AUM:

3,444,641,755 -5.73%

of that, discretionary:

3,444,641,755 -5.73%

Private Fund GAV:

3,444,641,755 8.90%

Avg Account Size:

492,091,679 -19.20%


SMA’s:

NO

Private Funds:

6 1

Contact Info

212 xxxxxxx

Websites :
Client Types:

+

Advisory Activities:

+

Compensation Arrangments:

+

Reported AUM

Discretionary
Non-discretionary
4B 3B 3B 2B 2B 1B 522M
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Recent News

Music Investor Primary Wave Bets on Bollywood
04/25/2023

Primary Wave, home to the music of Prince and Steve Nicks, is investing in an Indian record label in a bet that growth will come from emerging international music markets.

Wall Street Journal

Brookfield Bets $2 Billion on Music in Deal With Primary Wave
10/06/2022

Asset manager takes stake in publisher, commits $1.7 billion to buying copyrights, including Joey Ramone’s.

Wall Street Journal

Power of Law 2021: The Top Music Attorneys
04/08/2021

It’s been an unprecedented year for the world, and not least the music industry, where the live-entertainment business was flattened by the pandemic but other areas, notably streaming, publishing and recorded music,

yahoo.com

Paul Simon sells catalog to Sony Music Publishing
04/04/2021

Paul Simon has sold his publishing rights to Sony Music Publishing, the company announced Wednesday — marking the latest blockbuster catalog deal in the booming music-rights acq

sundaytimes.lk

Jeff Slate Paul Simon sold his catalog to Sony for millions. He'll still end up a historical footnote to Dylan.
04/02/2021

He was a prolific songwriter with a lucrative catalog any corporation would happily monetize. But there are only a few names our ancestors will ever learn.

MSN

Jeff Slate Paul Simon sold his catalog to Sony for millions. He'll still end up a historical footnote to Dylan.
04/02/2021

The rights to a song are a little-understood but incredibly lucrative side of the music business; hence the record sums that publishing giants like Sony and Universal and upstarts like Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Primary Wave are ponying up. What Simon and ...

nbcnews.com


Private Funds Structure

Fund Type Count GAV
Private Equity Fund 6 $3,444,641,755

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Brochure Summary

Overview

A. Primary Wave IP Investment Management LLC, its subsidiaries affiliates and its relying adviser, Primary Wave IP Investment Management II, LLC (collectively “Primary Wave”, the “Adviser” or the “Firm”), is a Delaware limited liability company formed on February 25, 2016. Primary Wave is an investment adviser focused on investing in music intellectual property, including music catalogs, copyrights, royalty streams and related rights. The Firm is located in New York, NY. The Firm is majority controlled by PWMP Ventures LLC.
B. The Firm provides investment advisory services to Primary Wave Music IP Fund 1, LP, (“Fund 1”), Primary Wave Music IP Fund 2, LP (“Fund 2”), Primary Wave Music IP Fund 3, LP (“Fund 3”); and Primary Wave Music IP Fund 4 LP (“Fund 4”), each a Delaware limited partnership; and Primary Wave Music Feeder, LP (the “Feeder Fund”, and together with Fund 1, Fund 2, Fund 3 and Fund 4, the “Funds”), a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership which feeds into Fund 3. The Firm also provides discretionary sub-advisory services to Primary Wave Music IP Holdings, LP (“IP Holdings”), a Delaware limited partnership and Primary Wave Music Prince Coinvest, LP (the “Prince Coinvest”), a Delaware limited partnership. The Funds, IP Holdings, and the Prince Coinvest are each considered a “Client” and collectively, the “Clients” or “Client Accounts”. The Client Accounts were formed as private equity pooled investment vehicles. The sole purpose of the Feeder Fund is to invest indirectly in Fund 3 through a blocker entity. The Prince Coinvest was formed to co-invest in the Prince Estate alongside Fund 3.
Primary Wave will focus on investing in a portfolio of music copyrights through acquisitions, administration, advances and structured agreements in relation to music royalty interests from a range of genres, artists, and music industry concerns. The Firm will have discretion to invest in a wide range of music copyrights, royalty streams, and music companies including, but not limited to, assets that are known in the music industry as music publishing, writers share, administration income, producer royalties, master royalties and neighboring rights (each a “Music Asset” and collectively “Music Assets”). It is anticipated that the Client Accounts will generate current income over the life of the Client Accounts and income attributable to the sale of assets.
C. Primary Wave provides discretionary investment management services to the Funds in accordance with the applicable limited partnership agreements, investment management agreements, operating agreements, offering memoranda and other such agreements (the “Offering
Documents”). The IP Holdings and Prince Coinvest’s limited partners’ investment rights are outlined in their respective governing documents. It should be noted that Primary Wave has management authority over IP Holdings and Prince Coinvest, subject to approvals by the respective majority partners of IP Holdings and Prince Coinvest.
Primary Wave Music IP Fund 1 GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is Fund 1’s General Partner (“Fund 1 General Partner”). Primary Wave Music IP Fund 2 GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is Fund 2’s General Partner (“Fund 2 General Partner”). Primary Wave Music IP Fund 3 GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is Fund 3’s and the Prince Coinvest’s General Partner (“Fund 3 General Partner”). Primary Wave Music IP Fund 4 GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is Fund 4’s General Partner (“Fund 4 General Partner”). Primary Wave Music IP Holdings GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is IP Holdings’ General Partner (“IP Holdings General Partner”). Primary Wave Music Feeder GP, LLC is the Feeder Fund’s General Partner (“FF General Partner” and together with Fund 1 General Partner, Fund 2 General Partner, Fund 3 General Partner, Fund 4 General Partner, and IP Holdings General Partner, the “General Partners”). The governing documents of the Funds and IP Holdings and Prince Co-Invest typically allow the General Partners to control the business and affairs of the Funds, IP Holdings and the Prince Co-Invest. Primary Wave does not expect to tailor advisory services to any individual or particular needs of the investors in the Client Accounts. Such investors accept the terms of advisory services as set forth in their respective governing document. The Firm expects to have broad investment authority with respect to the Clients and, as such, investors should consider whether the investment objectives of the Clients are in line with their individual objectives and risk tolerance prior to investment. It should be noted that the Clients and/or the General Partners, without any further act, approval or vote of any investor, has entered into, and may enter into after the date hereof, side letters or other similar agreements with certain investors that have the effect of establishing rights under, or altering or supplementing the terms of, the Offering Documents, which may make the rights of such investors different than the rights of other investors. D. Primary Wave does not participate in wrap fee programs. E. As of December 31, 2023, Primary Wave managed $3,380,546,017 in regulatory assets on a discretionary basis.