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.
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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With over 490 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.
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EmailRichard is the trusted adviser to several UHNW individuals and families in respect of all their interests, from running a de-facto private office, to their acquisitions and refurbishments of historic houses to advising on their art collections.
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EmailJane is part of the UK Banking & Finance team. She has a strong reputation for advising both domestic and international lenders, corporates and UHNW individuals and families on syndicated and bilateral finance transactions.
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EmailMichael is a Partner advising on a wide range of corporate litigation, procurement challenges, competition litigation and professional negligence claims.
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EmailNeil is a criminal defence and corporate crime specialist, with extensive experience of conducting anti-corruption, fraud and other investigations across Asia and Europe as well as involving other jurisdictions worldwide.
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EmailMichael leads a team that represent a wide and varied client base including leading trust companies and corporate service providers, trustees, family offices, beneficiaries, HNW and UHNW individuals (and their corporates) in a broad range of heavyweight commercial, trust and family disputes.
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EmailSandy is a specialist in our real estate team in Paris. Sandy intervenes in various real estate operations including acquisitions (share deal and asset deal), construction projects, lease negotiations.
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EmailMelina heads the Paris litigation team and the energy litigation practice at a global level. She assists French and international clients in France and abroad in cross-border disputes on issues like conflict of law and jurisdiction and devising international litigation strategies. She represents clients in commercial, product liability, distribution and art law disputes.
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EmailAlistair specialises in the provision of corporate criminal law advice, the conduct of investigations and compliance risk management. His specialist areas of expertise include bribery, money laundering, fraud, sanctions, export controls and modern slavery.
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EmailOliver is a commercial litigator who advises domestic and international corporate and UHNW clients on a range of commercial disputes, with a particular focus on the Art and Cultural Property sector.
Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised manufacturing companies PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steel tanks and a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm headquartered in Miami.
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