Anne-Sophie Nardon

I advise private collectors, heirs, family offices, galleries, international auction houses and museums on complex art and cultural property matters, with a focus on cross‑border transactions, succession planning and regulatory compliance (export controls, CITES and heritage rules). My practice covers civil and criminal art‑related disputes, including stolen and looted works, Nazi‑looted art and restitution claims, illicit trafficking of antiquities and fossils, and offences linked to the import and export of cultural goods. I also act as a French reference counsel for the art law teams of leading US and UK firms on multi‑jurisdictional matters.

Since 2009, Co-founder/Managing Partner of Borghese Associés, a boutique law firm specialised in Art law matters.

2001/2009 , Partner / Independent practitioner, Cabinet d’Eylau, Paris

Business, criminal, employment and intellectual property law advice and litigation.

1992/2001, Associate, SCP Henri Leclerc, Paris (12/1991–03/2001)

Handled contentious matters in business crime, IT law and international criminal law, and advised on business law and press law, within a leading criminal defence practice.

- Member, Institut Art et Droit (Paris)

- Member, Art Lawyers Association (ALA), London

- Officer of the International Bar Association

- Co‑Chair of the Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee of the Paris Bar

- Publication Officer of the American Bar Association International Law Section and past Co‑Chair of its Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee

• How is Gift Tax handled? Virtual Art Panel, Stonehage Fleming, 7 novembre 2025

• The Seller’s Right to Rescind - Decision of the French Cour de Cassation Regarding Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, published in Art Antiquity and Law, Volume XXX Issue 2 July 2025

• No mistake about the Fang mask says the court, ALA blog, mars 2024

• Les dix commandements du collectionneur, La Gazette Drouot n°27, 7 juillet 2023

• Appropriation: Where does it start, when does it stop? , Newsletter Hiver 2022/2023, Art and Cultural Heritage committee de la section internationale de l'American Bar Association