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# Access Industries <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Access Industries
summary: Privately held New York investment group founded by Len Blavatnik in 1986; it bought Warner Music Group in 2011 and still controls it.
legal_name: Access Industries Holdings LLC
registered_address: c/o Access Industries Management, LLC, 730 Fifth Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States
country: US
website: https://www.accessindustries.com/
register_ids: US-SEC:0001391297
founded: 1986
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                           | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------ | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Access Industries Holdings LLC | legal |        |      |       |
| Access Industries, LLC         | legal |        |      |       |
| Access                         | name  |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                                                                 | title                                                                                     | accessed   | publisher                               | kind        | published  | record_id            | locator                            | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| access-site | https://www.accessindustries.com/                                                   | Access Industries: a global investment company                                            | 2026-09-20 | Access Industries                       | other       |            |                      | Home, select investments           |         |             |          |
| sec-aih     | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001391297.json                                 | EDGAR submissions record: Access Industries Holdings LLC, CIK 0001391297                  | 2026-09-20 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry    |            | 0001391297           | Entity data, addresses             |         |             |          |
| sec-10k     | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000131916125000034/wmg-20250930.htm | Warner Music Group Corp. annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 30 September 2025  | 2026-09-20 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | publication | 2025-11-20 | 0001319161-25-000034 | Business; Properties; Risk factors |         |             |          |
| sec-form4   | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000120919123019122/doc4.xml         | Form 4 filed by AI Entertainment Holdings LLC and affiliates for Warner Music Group Corp. | 2026-09-20 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry    | 2023-03-16 | 0001209191-23-019122 | Reporting owners, footnotes 2-3    |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Access Industries is the private investment group founded by Len Blavatnik in 1986 and run from New York. It describes a portfolio spanning strategic equity, global media and entertainment, real estate, biotechnology and technology ventures, held in more than 100 countries and valued at over 35 billion US dollars; among its holdings are Warner Music Group, LyondellBasell and DAZN.[^access-site] The group is privately held and has no parent company above it: Access Industries Holdings LLC, the Delaware entity that reports the group's holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission from 730 Fifth Avenue in New York, is controlled through Access Industries, LLC and Access Industries Management, LLC by Mr Blavatnik personally.[^sec-aih][^sec-form4] Access bought Warner Music Group in 2011, floated its Class A shares on Nasdaq in 2020 and keeps more than half of the combined voting power through Class B stock.[^sec-10k][^access-site] The 1986 date is the group's own, from its website; no public register entry for the Delaware company is free to read.
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