This experience and understanding of the trade and its peculiarities means that he and the team are able to advise in an informed and commercial way. Our relevant services include:

• All property law requirements (such as negotiating terms and advising on purchases or leases of premises)
• Art-related aspects of succession planning, wills, trusts and tax issues
• Company formation and administration
• Dispute resolution in cases of defective title, provenance, authenticity, and attribution
• Import/export: assisting clients to ensure that they are fully compliant with tax and legal considerations when transporting works of art across borders
• Loan agreements (such as advising owners lending to temporary exhibitions)
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts for the sale or purchase of works of art

Experience:

• Acting as Executor and Trustee of estate which included art and consideration, advice valuation and sale
• Acting for a buyer over the provenance of an antique bought at auction
• Acting for a dealer in a claim by an owner for recovery of stolen work
• Acting for various owners of works that disappeared while being cleaned/or in storage
• Advising a lender on enforcement of security over and realisation of works of art (and rare book collection with chattel mortgage)
• Advising a Liechtenstein Foundation on the purchase and sale of works of art
• Advising a private client on the acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax scheme
• Advising an international not-for-profit gallery on its establishment and on-going contractual matters
• Advising artists on wills and tax efficient succession planning
• Advising the St James’s branch of a bank lending to art dealers