Deal sheet
- Status
- CURRENT AND ACTIVE ON THE REGISTER AS AT 13 SEPTEMBER 2026. The company status is Active and the PSC entry is Active, notified 17 March 2023, with its three natures of control unchanged since. This is a standing state of affairs rather than a transaction that closed. No acquisition, investment, sale or licence is recorded or asserted by this record.
CONTROL HAS NOT CHANGED HANDS. A PSC04 was filed on 15 September 2025, and the filing-history entry describes it as a change "of details for Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi as a person with significant control on 18 July 2025". It therefore amends the particulars of the same named person rather than ending or transferring the interest. A CH01 filed the same day carries the same 18 July 2025 effective date and is likewise a change of details "for Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi". A cessation of control would appear as a PSC07 and produce an end date on the register. No such filing and no such date appear. The underlying documents could not be retrieved, so what specific particular changed could not be established.
THE ONLY GOVERNANCE CHANGE IS A SECOND DIRECTOR. Olusina Akintokunbo Akinterinwa was appointed 1 April 2026, filed AP01 on 15 April 2026. He holds no PSC interest, so control did not move with the appointment.
- Parties
- Dapper Music & Entertainment, Dvpper Digital
- Amount
- Not disclosed
- Rights covered
- CONTROL OF A COMPANY, NOT TITLE TO RIGHTS. What is established here is corporate control, not ownership of any master recording or composition. The register records who controls DAPPER MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT LTD. It does not record what that company owns, licenses or administers. This distinction is the whole of the record: a PSC filing is a statement about shares and votes in a company, never a statement about copyright.
WHAT THE CONTROL CONSISTS OF. Three natures of control are recorded against the same person, Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi: ownership of shares of 75 per cent or more, ownership of voting rights of 75 per cent or more, and the right to appoint or remove directors. Taken together these are the three levers that matter. At 75 per cent of votes a shareholder can pass a special resolution unaided, which covers altering the articles, changing the company's name and winding it up. The separate director power means the board is appointed and removable at that person's discretion.
SOLE AND DIRECT, WITH NO PARENT. One active PSC and zero active statements are recorded. A registered company with no PSC it can identify must file a statement to that effect; none is filed here, and the single entry is an individual rather than a corporate entity. So the chain stops at a natural person. There is no intermediate holding company on this register through which some other party could hold an interest.
WHY THIS BEARS ON ARTIST CREDIT LINES. This company is named as the rights holder ahead of the words "under exclusive license to Dvpper Digital Ltd" on phonogram credits documented by this desk for T.I Blaze, Shallipopi and Seyi Vibez. That credit construction describes a licence out, not an assignment: the named owner grants exploitation rights for a term and retains title. This record establishes who controls the company sitting on the owner side of that formula. It does not establish the terms of the licence, which have never been published.
NO EQUITY ROLE FOR ANY MAJOR. No major label or distributor appears in the ownership or governance record. Virgin Music Group specifically holds no share, no voting right and no board seat, which is consistent with the distribution-only role this desk has already documented for it in African partnerships, where no transfer of masters, publishing or equity has been disclosed. Distribution and ownership are different relationships and the register separates them cleanly here.
- Territory
- UNITED KINGDOM FOR THE REGISTRATION, NIGERIA FOR THE OPERATION. The company is incorporated in England and Wales and files at Companies House, so the corporate record is a UK record. The controlling person is recorded as Nigerian and resident in Nigeria, and the artists whose credit lines name this company are Nigerian. No territorial grant is at issue in this record, because this record concerns control of a company rather than the scope of any licence.
- Announced
- 2023-03-17
- Primary document
- Regulatory filing
- Sources
- UK Companies House public register, PSC page for DAPPER MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT LTD, company number 14738139, retrieved 13 September 2026. · Companies House registered profile for DAPPER MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT LTD, company number 14738139: incorporation 17 March 2023, Active status, private limited company, registered office 101 New Cavendish Street, 1st Floor South, London W1W 6XH, SIC codes 59200, 90010 and 90020. · Companies House officers list: Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi, director, appointed 17 March 2023, Nigerian, resident Nigeria, born August 1994, identity verification due 29 September 2026; Olusina Akintokunbo Akinterinwa, director, appointed 1 April 2026, British, resident England, born December 1994, identity verification checks completed 30 March 2026 by Harris & Trotter LLP, an Authorised Corporate Service Provider supervised by the ICAEW. Akinterinwa holds no PSC interest. · Companies House filing history, cited for form type, date and the registry's own one-line description only, because the filed documents could not be retrieved. AP01 15 April 2026, appointment of Akinterinwa as a director on 1 April 2026. Total exemption full accounts made up to 31 March 2025, filed 17 December 2025. CS01 filed 15 September 2025, made 15 September 2025. CH01 filed 15 September 2025, change of details for Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi on 18 July 2025. PSC04 filed 15 September 2025, change of details for Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi as a person with significant control on 18 July 2025. CS01 filed 18 March 2025, made 16 March 2025. Total exemption full accounts made up to 31 March 2024, filed 17 September 2024. CS01 filed 13 May 2024, made 16 March 2024. AD01 filed 2 May 2023, registered office moved from 64 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 8TB to 101 New Cavendish Street, 1st Floor South, London W1W 6XH on 2 May 2023. Incorporation 17 March 2023 with model articles. · Companies House company search for "Dapper Group", performed 13 September 2026. Only exact match is DAPPER GROUP LIMITED, number 03334103, incorporated 17 March 1997, Unit 1 Barons Court Graceways, Whitehills Business Park, Blackpool FY4 5GP. Unrelated. Establishes that no UK-registered entity corresponds to the "Dapper Group" described in trade coverage as a parent. · Companies House company search for "Dvpper", performed 13 September 2026. No results under company names, previous names or appointment names. Establishes that Dvpper Digital Ltd, the exclusive licensee named on the artists' phonogram credits, is not a UK-registered company.
Read this before citing: ESTABLISHED. That DAPPER MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT LTD is a real, active company registered in England and Wales, number 14738139, incorporated 17 March 2023. That its register records exactly one active person with significant control, an individual named Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi, holding 75 per cent or more of shares, 75 per cent or more of voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors. That its register records two directors and that the second, appointed 1 April 2026, holds no PSC interest. Each of these was read directly from the Companies House public register and re-verified on 13 September 2026.
IDENTITY NOT ESTABLISHED. The register gives the controlling person as Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi, born August 1994, Nigerian, resident in Nigeria. Companies House publishes only the month and year of a PSC's birth, never the full date, so a date of birth cannot be used to make a conclusive match. The correspondence between this entry and the publicly known music executive Damilola "Dapper" Akinwunmi rests on four consistent points and no more: an exact full-name match, a month and year of birth consistent with public reporting of his birth in August 1994, Nigerian nationality, and Nigerian residency. This record does NOT assert that they are the same person, because the register carries no fact capable of establishing it. Readers should treat the corporate finding and the identification as two separate propositions with different strengths.
REGISTRY CAVEAT. Companies House does not verify the accuracy of information filed with it. The PSC entry is a statement made by the company about itself. The register records what was filed, not what is true. The identity verification regime now appearing on the officers page verifies that a named individual is who they say they are; it does not verify their shareholding.
"DAPPER GROUP" IS NOT A UK LEGAL ENTITY. A Companies House company search performed on 13 September 2026 for "Dapper Group" returns one exact match, DAPPER GROUP LIMITED, number 03334103, incorporated 17 March 1997 at Unit 1 Barons Court Graceways, Whitehills Business Park, Blackpool FY4 5GP. Wrong location, wrong era, no connection to Akinwunmi and no music activity. There is NO evidence connecting that company to this catalogue or to the Nigerian music business, and it should not be assumed to be related. The consequence is that "Dapper Group", as described in trade coverage and in this site's own directory copy as a parent, is not traceable to a UK-registered legal entity and appears on this evidence to be a trading or brand name. Whether a Nigerian-registered entity of that name exists could not be checked, for the reason below.
DVPPER DIGITAL IS NOT ON THE UK REGISTER AT ALL. The same search performed for "Dvpper Digital" and for "Dvpper" returns no UK company, under that name or as a previous or appointment name. Dvpper Digital Ltd is the entity named as exclusive licensee on the phonogram credits of T.I Blaze, Shallipopi and Seyi Vibez documented by this desk. Its incorporation, ownership and control therefore remain unverified. It is presumed to be a Nigerian entity, but that presumption is not evidence.
NIGERIA CANNOT BE CHECKED. Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission has no public free-text search tool available to this desk. Any Nigerian-side corporate structure sitting above, below or beside the UK company is therefore unresolved, and this record makes no claim about it. This is the same wall that stopped this desk's earlier T.I Blaze, Shallipopi and Seyi Vibez records at the same question, and it is not removed by this finding; it is only moved, from the UK company to the Nigerian one.
RHYTHM VAULT UNCHANGED. The ownership of Rhythm Vault, flagged as an open question in this desk's T.I Blaze record because it appears on neither the UK register nor any searchable Nigerian one, is not addressed or altered by this finding.
NO FIGURES. No consideration, valuation, revenue or catalogue value is disclosed or asserted. The company filed total exemption full accounts to 31 March 2025 on 17 December 2025 and to 31 March 2024 on 17 September 2024. Total exemption accounts carry no profit and loss account, so no turnover figure exists in them to report. Separately, the Companies House document endpoint redirects to a presigned link that expires within roughly sixty seconds, and the filed PDFs could not be retrieved. Filing history is cited in this record only for the form type and the filing date, both of which appear on the public filing-history page itself. No figure should be inferred from any of it.
PARTIES RECORDED. Dapper Music & Entertainment and Dvpper Digital are recorded as parties. Virgin Music Group is deliberately NOT recorded as a party, even though this desk's T.I Blaze record lists it, because the finding here about Virgin is a negative one, the absence of any interest on the register. Listing a company as party to a control record would imply an interest that the register does not show.
DAPPER MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT LTD, the company named as rights holder on the phonogram credits of T.I Blaze, Shallipopi and Seyi Vibez releases, is controlled by one natural person. The UK register records a single active person with significant control: Mr Damilola Joseph Akinwunmi, Nigerian, resident in Nigeria, notified on 17 March 2023, holding ownership of shares of 75 per cent or more, ownership of voting rights of 75 per cent or more, and the right to appoint or remove directors.
There is no corporate parent on the register. No holding company, no investor vehicle and no major-label entity appears anywhere in the company’s ownership or governance record. Virgin Music Group, named prominently in this desk’s earlier T.I Blaze record, holds no share, no vote and no board seat in this company on the evidence of the register.
The company is number 14738139, incorporated 17 March 2023 as a private limited company, status Active, registered office 101 New Cavendish Street, 1st Floor South, London W1W 6XH. Its SIC codes are 59200 sound recording and music publishing activities, 90010 performing arts, and 90020 support activities to performing arts. It adopted model articles on incorporation.
Two directors are recorded. Damilola Joseph AKINWUNMI, Nigerian, resident Nigeria, appointed 17 March 2023, identity verification due 29 September 2026. Olusina Akintokunbo AKINTERINWA, British, resident England, appointed 1 April 2026, identity verified by Harris & Trotter LLP, an Authorised Corporate Service Provider supervised by the ICAEW, on 30 March 2026. Akinterinwa holds no PSC interest. His arrival is a board appointment, not a transfer of ownership.
Two searches returned nothing that supports the wider corporate picture the trade describes. A search for “Dapper Group” returns only DAPPER GROUP LIMITED, number 03334103, incorporated 17 March 1997 at an address in Blackpool, with no connection to Akinwunmi or to music. A search for “Dvpper Digital”, the entity named as exclusive licensee on all three artists’ credit lines, returns no UK company at all, under that name or as a previous name.
