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IP clarity unlocks growth

Games get built
Deals get made

IP clarity unlocks growth

We structure and activate deals between creators, platforms, and capital, moving value across the gaming ecosystem.

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The acquisitions are happening.
The infrastructure behind them often isn't.

$6.6B
Gaming M&A transactions in Q1 2025 alone, with deals over $100M surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time
InvestGame / Aream & Co., Q1 2025
$1.1B
Paid out to Roblox creators in 2025, with the top 10 developers averaging $33.9M each
Roblox Annual Economic Impact Report, Sep 2025
>$100M
Brookhaven RP acquired by Voldex, financed by Raine Partners and Shamrock Capital, within weeks of Roblox legalizing game transfers
Bloomberg / Voldex, Feb 2025
3 days
Time to build Grow a Garden. It peaked at 22.3M CCU, broke Fortnite's all-time record, and was partially acquired before its creators understood what they had
Tubefilter / Game Developer, 2025

Brands now enter games through speed, not ownership.

Brands that once built their own game experiences now integrate into games that already exist. Creator-built worlds move faster and reach larger audiences, but the ownership, governance, and business structure behind them often remain unclear.

Source: Virtual Worlds Brand Strategy Report, 2025

Integration-led Brand-owned
4%
96%
2021
16%
84%
2022
22%
78%
2023
34%
66%
2024
50%
50%
2025

We prepare creator-driven games for brands, publishers, and investors.

IP ownership, governance, ecosystem structure, and platform exposure. Mapped before deals, raises, and acquisitions put everything under scrutiny.

ACQUISITION
PRODUCTION
Platform Exposure
UGC environments create risks moderation alone can't catch. We identify brand, policy, and enforcement exposure before it surfaces in deals.
Creator Governance
Fast-moving teams often grow before governance catches up. We ensure the agreements and rights supporting the game can scale.
Ecosystem Structure
Creator platforms rely on contributors, assets, and revenue flows that extend beyond the core studio. We map how those relationships actually work.
IP Foundation
At the base of every creator ecosystem sits the underlying IP. We verify ownership, licensing, and asset dependencies before they become deal blockers.

Deals move fast. Your business structure should already be clear.

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Your deal readiness playbook.

Every engagement produces the same structured deliverables: ownership mapping, governance review, risk assessment, and a deal readiness playbook designed for due diligence.

Ownership & Business Structure

Ownership, agreements, and operating structure mapped and documented. Cap tables, founder arrangements, licensing, and platform dependencies.

Risk Assessment

Every identified gap scored by likelihood and impact across IP, governance, platform exposure, and creator relationships. Where the real pressure points sit, ranked by deal impact.

Remediation Roadmap

A sequenced action plan. What to fix first, what to delegate, what to refer. Prioritized by deal impact, not complexity.

Executive Narrative

The narrative your board, counsel, or acquirer needs to understand the system quickly. Clear, non-technical, and built to hold up in a room where everything is on the table.

We work with creator studios at every stage of growth.

Creator Stage Studio Scale Enterprise UGC

Creator Finding Early Success

Rising audience, real revenue, and early conversations about brand deals, licensing, or a game launch. No formal structure behind any of it yet.

Common Gaps:

No operating agreement.
No clarity on who owns the IP being built.
Revenue splits agreed over DMs.

Studio Ready to Do Deals

Multiple live games, a real team, active monetization. Inbound interest from publishers, acquirers, or brand partners starting to come in.

Common Gaps:

Never held a board meeting. No corporate minutes. Founder roles were never documented. Revenue share terms for creators exist in a spreadsheet no one can find. When diligence begins, none of it holds up.

Enterprise Entering UGC

Established IP, real legal infrastructure. Now introducing UGC tools, modding, or a creator program at scale.

Common Gaps:

Royalty structures were never standardized. Legal, Product, and Finance each have a different version of what creators are owed. The deal terms are inconsistent across partners and no one has mapped where the exposure actually sits.

How the engagement works

01

Initial Review

We start with a structured intake covering your business model, deal history, platform relationships, and where you're headed. No forms. A real conversation.

02

Diagnostics

We map your ownership structure, rights exposure, and operational controls against the issues that surface in diligence, deals, and acquisitions.

03

Delivery

You receive your full deal readiness playbook: structured findings, prioritized actions, and an executive narrative built to hold up under scrutiny.

Who we are

We're corporate, entertainment, and IP attorneys who spent years inside the ecosystems where risk compounds: platforms, studios, and creator economies. We built Relayer after repeatedly seeing the same pattern: by the time legal got involved, the problem was already embedded.

Relayer works upstream, surfacing where ownership, licensing, and operations diverge before disputes or deal friction appear.

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