About Stacey

Once tagged by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the music industry’s leading experts, Stacey has 30+ years’ experience as a lawyer and music industry executive in London and New York.

The hard work and vast experience paid off in November 2022 when Deborah Mannis-Gardner asked her to join DMG as a consultant. Happy and proud doesn’t even begin to describe how she feels.

They delivered their first webinar on music rights in NFTs and metaverses in April 2022 and began drafting the licensing agreements and royalty formulae for Web3 music licensing, and formed the Web3 Music Rights Group.

Stacey is also CLO of SyncLodge Ltd. and Co-Founder of IAFAR Ltd. (International Association for Artists and Rightsholders).

As a legal and business affairs consultant she advises multiplatinum superstars to emerging artists and has previously advised billion pound brands in the use of music in their marketing and advertising, and global icons in their contract negotiations as part of two well-known but no longer existing City firms. Favourite negotiation - music client’s appearance on The Simpsons. Favourite client communication - Christmas card from David Bowie.

Memberships include the New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Music Supervisors Guild, British Phonographic Institute, National Union of Journalists, Society of Authors and Crime Writers Association.

Stacey co-presents the podcast Money In The Air for IAFAR.