We advise acquirers and owners on catalog and company transactions, and invest alongside them.
Fort Noxx Music Partners Group is an integrated advisory and investment firm for the music asset class. FNMPG was founded in 2020 as a principal investor in music rights and, in 2026, completed its ownership cycle, acquiring and running music rights and a full-service operating music platform. From that foundation the firm evolved into a merchant advisor, pairing transaction advisory with a principal investment strategy and an operator's network to serve institutional acquirers, catalog owners, and music companies. The underwriting the firm developed as an owner governs both lines of the business today.
Leadership and senior advisors bring more than 300 years of combined experience across music, media, technology, finance, law, and private equity, including senior roles at Universal Music Group, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Def Jam Recordings, BMG Music Publishing, Corus Entertainment, Vulcan Inc, Acacia Research, Grant Thornton, SpaceX, and Wacom Technology, among others.
The music industry is institutionalizing. Capital is entering the asset class at scale, while the advisory infrastructure serving it remains fragmented. FNMPG Advisory represents acquirers deploying into catalogs and the owners and companies they transact with, on the buy side and the sell side.
The practice draws on the firm's integrated platform: the underwriting FNMPG applies as a principal investor, and the operator network it built as an owner. Catalog and company transactions run as structured processes; catalog valuation is conducted independently on Royalty Source Intelligence, the firm's proprietary platform. We are selective in the engagements we take on, and focus on transactions where our involvement changes the outcome.
The advisory practice→Project EQINXX is the firm's principal investment strategy: selective, pure-play catalog acquisition, structured deal by deal and underwritten on the same discipline the firm brings to every client mandate. It invests in partnership with the firm's clients and, selectively, in opportunities of its own.
Every transaction is underwritten on Royalty Source Intelligence, which converts raw royalty statements into auditable, transaction-level analysis. The discipline was built in direct ownership, not applied from outside.
The strategy→One firm, mandate to close.