MEP Capital

MEP Capital is a New York-based private investment firm that provides debt and equity financing across the media and entertainment industry, with a focus on intellectual property-backed opportunities. The operating entity is MEP Capital Management, LLC, an investment adviser registered with the SEC (CRD 304299, SEC file number 801-122758) that reports private funds on its Form ADV.

Debt and equity in media and entertainment businesses and rights, with an emphasis on IP-backed assets. Its website describes five areas: music (financing for rights holders across recorded music, publishing, production music, artist management and live), film and television (lending against and acquiring libraries and net profit participations, tax-credit and pre-sale lending, license-receivables financing and bridge lending), digital media (growth capital for YouTube channels, short-form video, digital publishing, podcasts and user-generated content), gaming (loans against catalogs, acquisition financing and completion funding for independent studios and publishers) and sports entertainment (sports media rights, transfer receivables, contract financing and loans to teams and leagues). The bridge lending it refers to is film and television financing.

Andrew Kotliar is listed on the firm's SEC Form ADV (Schedule A, amendment filed 30 April 2026) as Managing Partner and Member, and the same schedule lists Ariel Kleinman as Chief Compliance Officer and CFO (since August 2025). Trade press quotes Kotliar as a MEP Capital partner. The firm's team page names eight people in total. No investment committee is published in the sources reviewed, so none is listed.

New York. The principal office on its Form ADV is 20 W 22nd Street, Unit 807, New York, NY 10010. MEP Capital does not publish a geographic mandate; its listed investments include companies and vehicles in the United States, the United Kingdom (Electrify Video Partners), Italy (ElevenPoint Sports) and sports-rights businesses serving Latin America (FZ Sports).

mepcap.com. The firm's Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 1.I) lists its LinkedIn company page and a Medium publication.

Yes. MEP Capital Management, LLC is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser (CRD 304299, file number 801-122758). The SEC's IAPD record shows the registration effective 24 November 2021, after an exempt-reporting-adviser filing that was withdrawn effective 25 October 2021, and its latest Form ADV amendment filed 30 April 2026.

Its SEC Form ADV, filed 30 April 2026, reports regulatory assets under management of $507,296,742, all discretionary, across 21 accounts (about $35.7 million attributable to non-U.S. persons). Regulatory AUM is the SEC's Form ADV measure; it is not net assets or committed capital, and the form does not print the date the figure was calculated.

Its website lists eight investments and partnerships, and public sources document others. Equity: BondIt Media Capital (majority stake reported by Variety, February 2026), Open Road (co-investor in the 2021 acquisition), FZ Sports (co-investor in a reported $74 million financing) and Made In Network (growth equity alongside Cordillera Investment Partners, 2022). Debt and financing: Electrify Video Partners (led a round of up to $50 million spanning debt and equity, February 2023), ElevenPoint Sports (junior notes in a receivables securitization), Good Games Group (financing backer of its catalog sub-licensing arrangement) and Sound Royalties (financing alongside GoDigital Media Group's 2021 acquisition). Firm-launched platform: West Side Pictures. Listed on the website without a documented relationship: Gear Patrol. The Deals tab gives the detail and shows an amount only where one was reported (never MEP's own share); an undisclosed amount is unknown, not zero.