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Our art team combines wide-ranging expertise in the financial, tax and import/export aspects of art ownership with a deep understanding of the sensitivities and peculiarities of the international art market.
Our specialist art law practice deals with art transactions and with various related issues and disputes. These include matters relating to contract, auction, attribution, provenance, restitution, artist’s rights, cultural heritage, intellectual property, tax and estate planning – including tax incentives such as the Cultural Gifts Scheme and inheritance tax conditional exemption – export licences, CITES, insurance, finance and collateral.
Our clients are primarily collectors and investors, agents and introducers, but we have also acted for and dealt with artists, dealers, auction houses, museums and galleries, consignors, storers, valuers and exhibitors, as well as the descendants of the victims of Nazi-looted or forced-sale art and innocent purchasers.
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Fladgate's art law team is well positioned to handle a broad range of contentious and non-contentious art-related matters, including contested attribution, restitution and disputes arising from divorces. Much of the work is located at the intersection of private client, family and art law.
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I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Fladgate. The team has a high degree of skill and competence.
The team carry an impressive depth of knowledge and experience that helps inform their work and approach. They are well informed and up to date with current issues, as well as being client-focused.
The team is solutions-focused, giving well-considered, pertinent, clear advice. They are both highly attuned to the practices of the art market as well as being aware of their clients' priorities.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Fladgate. The team has a high degree of skill and competence.
The team carry an impressive depth of knowledge and experience that helps inform their work and approach. They are well informed and up to date with current issues, as well as being client-focused.
The team is solutions-focused, giving well-considered, pertinent, clear advice. They are both highly attuned to the practices of the art market as well as being aware of their clients' priorities.
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Hetty Gleave handles contentious matters concerning title, authenticity and looted art, and is also an experienced family lawyer.
Hetty has this really quiet, underrated way of winning confidence. I think she is brilliant, and she really knows the art space.
Hetty is unbelievably impressive. She is friendly, warm and personable, as well as having an incisive legal brain and with very special knowledge of her area.
Hetty is one of the most well-known and liked practitioners in the country. She is absolutely totally brilliant, tenacious and tough whilst having a lovely way about her.
Hetty is an outstanding lawyer with a huge range and depth of experience. She's savvy and smart, a great communicator and a delight to work with.
Rebecca Christie is a senior associate at Fladgate with a considerable art and cultural property practice. She is a board member of the London chapter of PAIAM and a respected member of the art law community.
Rebecca is very involved in the art world. She is incredibly thorough and is able to keep her cool. She also has an eye for detail, and she is really passionate.
Rebecca is an incredibly genuine, conscientious, motivated and hard-working lawyer who will always do right by her client.
Rebecca is approachable and dynamic without a shadow of a doubt. There is always a drive in her to get it right. She is fantastic.