About

Working for over seven years as legal and business affairs manager for Sony Music Entertainment Denmark, makes Tine Skytte Holm the longest serving senior officer for the Group’s Danish entity. An external lawyer remarks that because of her time with the company that ‘the group’s corporate memory is for a significant part vested with her’. She demonstrates a range of skill sets that allow her to navigate the complex environment often associated with media production, while taking into consideration the internationality of the company. Skytte Holm is trusted to administer large contract portfolios with artists while guarding IP rights and liaising with external counsel on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment. She works closely with the creative artists to ensure all legal issues are concluded on time while ensuring that the company’s business models comply with the law. As the only lawyer in the Danish holding, Skytte Holm has had to rely solely on her own judgement based on her business and legal experiences and she has done so in a successful and admirable manner. Her success is owed to her understanding of the business, she says ‘working as an in-house lawyer in a record company, where creativity comes first and foremost, you must have political flair and a good sense of empathy. In my position you need to be pragmatic and legally creative’. Skytte Holm’s assortment of tasks does not end there as she is also the liaison between the company’s European and global legal teams. Having to work under complex situations that are often covered with media attention, in a sector that has gone through significant transformations, encouraged by the technology revolution, is where Skytte Holm flourishes.