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M&A music on replay at Songtradr; $US175m pre-IPO raise under way

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Oct 8, 2024 – 4.32pm

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...which means only two things in the music industry.

One, Michael Bublé is smacking his lips ahead of a fat royalty cheque. And two, Songtradr founder and CEO Paul Wiltshire has found another M&A target and is rattling the tin to finance it.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.