BMG Rights Management is “very interested” in acquiring any EMI catalogue divestments that come as part of Universal’s efforts to appease regulators scrutinising its proposed £1.2 billion acquisition of the label’s music arm.

Speaking to the Financial Times, BMG’s chief executive Hartwig Masuch said of the potential disposal, “I would assume that they can get what they paid for it,” before confirming his interest in EMI’s catalogue of master recordings saying that the company is in non-exclusive negotiations with ...