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Our global team blends specialised legal skills in art and cultural property law and deep market knowledge, ensuring we can tackle any art-related legal challenges our clients encounter, whether transactional or contentious.
We have art law specialists across the globe, including a wide network of market contacts, to provide a truly international arts practice.
Extensive team of specialist lawyers drawn from across the firm to provide a full service to clients on contentious and non-contentious matters.
We advise on all art forms—traditional and emerging, as well as other luxury assets and collectable items.
Our Art & Cultural Property Law team has extensive and outstanding experience, Including:
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Advised a cultural goods collector, on the provenance review of 104 pieces stored in London, assessing compliance with European Union Regulation 2019/880, which governs the introduction and import of cultural goods into the EU, for their planned importation and housing in Italy.
Advised a prominent investment holding company, on drafting and negotiating terms for a licence agreement concerning a substantial art portfolio and the associated UK tax consequences.
Represented a German state cultural trust, in litigation to recover a 14th century wooden church altar out of insolvency proceedings.
Advising on a claim against a prominent auction house and international jewellery dealer in respect of antique jewellery which was tested by an expert and found to be inauthentic.
Advising a prominent collector in disputes in the London High Court concerning objects it purchased from a high-profile Swiss antiquities dealer, where it is claimed that the alleged antiquities are modern forgeries and the provenance material was fraudulently produced.
Advised an international art purchaser on its rights regarding an art piece purchased in the UK from a reputable London dealer. The client successfully obtained a full refund after it emerged that the piece could not be removed from the UK due to a lack of evidence of legal importation.
Advising the Al Thani Collection Foundation on its partnership with CMN and its exhibition galleries at the Hôtel de la Marine, including in respect of the loans of numerous artworks required to be showcased over the course of the next 20 years in the museum’s galleries.
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