Partner, Adeptus Partners, LLC
Mr. Stark’s compliance practice focuses on protecting intellectual properties, maximizing licensing and royalty revenue, and providing his clients with value added business intelligence and other nonmonetary benefits. His experience includes performing various types of forensic, royalty and contract compliance audits to identify, quantify and recover amount due his clients. Mr. Stark has also conducted hundreds of financial due diligence reviews in connection with music catalog acquisitions, financing, and securitizations. He provides litigation consulting and expert witness testimony primarily with respect to royalty and profit participation disputes and other contractual breaches. Mr. Stark and his colleagues provide other services, including IP valuation, royalty administration and accounting services, and royalty audit defense.
Mr. Stark enjoys consulting with clients to help them improve the financial and audit provisions within their contracts, identify untapped opportunities and enhance relationships. His approach is holistic, as compliance auditing is more than just tracing numbers. He considers the big picture, business relationships, IP protection, contractual intent, equity positions, business conditions, risks and opportunities, and more, in order to provide additional value to clients.
Mr. Stark has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, which range from individuals to Fortune 500 companies. The industries in which Mr. Stark operates include Sports and Entertainment (Music, Film, TV, Broadway, Professional Leagues and Teams); Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Devices); Technology and Software; Apparel, Footwear and Accessories, Food, Beverage and Restaurants; Toys, Games and Video Games; Print and Digital Media; Automotive and more.
