Art and Cultural Property Law

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Provided by Lalive

The firm's Art and Cultural Property team represents museums, galleries, auction houses, collectors, artists, art market professionals, charities, foundations, governments and major banks.

• Art transactions and finance: advice on the buying and selling of fine art, antiques and other collectibles, and on transactions involving art as a collateral.
• Art due diligence: regulatory and reputational due diligence for art market operators on issues of money laundering, trafficking of antiquities, looted art and fakes, a key area for the preservation of art market integrity.
• Estate planning: estate planning and support in setting-up appropriate structures to preserve art collections over generations.
• Art disputes: assistance in all art-related disputes including cases of defective title, provenance, authenticity, attribution and restitution, as well as criminal and fraudulent conduct. We have significant experience in claims for restitution artworks looted during WWII.