Barry Manilow and Hipgnosis' lawsuits over unpaid bonuses provide a look into the contracts that Hipgnosis entered into during its acquisition spree.
are embroiled in a pair of lawsuits over $1.5 million in unpaid bonuses Manilow’s team claims Hipgnosis agreed to when it acquired his catalog.in the High Court in London on August 12, saying they do not owe Manilow these bonuses, and that Manilow, Manilow Productions and Stiletto Entertainment are in breach of contract for not turning over certain payments they received from Sony Music. The “Mandy” singer and his management companyin United States federal court in California on Aug.
“Hipgnosis did not carry out a single one of its touted promotional strategies; upon information and belief, it did nothing at all in order to keep the cash income below the levels required to meet the condition precedent for the additional purchase price payments,” Manilow and Stiletto Entertainment’s legal team alleges in the complaint. Manilow also missed out on expected complementary increases in the value of his publishing royalties and his Las Vegas residency, they claim in the suit.
Regardless, Hipgnosis says in the suit it does not owe the bonuses because the income received never met the performance targets, and it is seeking to recover 100,000 pounds from Manilow and his production and management teams. Representatives for Hipgnosis also dispute Manilow’s team’s logic that Hipgnosis did not promote his works so as to keep the income levels below the thresholds that would trigger the bonus payouts, saying that logic is false because acquisition deals are structured to incentivize Hipgnosis to optimize the asset. Performance bonuses by definition are paid out when the asset does well, which benefits the artist and Hipgnosis, they say.
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