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Provided by Hetty Gleave
Leading Partner
The Legal 500 UK 2025 - Art and Cultural Property
2025
Hetty specialises in family law, including divorce and separation, financial proceedings, pre and post nuptial agreements and all issues relating to children. She also specialise in the law relating to art and cultural property.
Hetty’s expertise is in handling high net worth and complex financial divorces often with an international focus and involving offshore trusts, business valuations, pre-acquired assets and issues of non disclosure. She also has significant experience in helping clients with disputes concerning children, including child arrangements, residence, abuse, abduction and adoption.
Relationship breakdown is never easy and clients expect matters to be dealt with efficiently and with sensitivity. Hetty’s aim is to deliver realistic advice that achieves the best results in a cost efficient way and she takes a hard line when she needs to and push to settle when she does not.
Hetty is also qualified as both a commercial and a family mediator and has mediated on complex family matters and issues relating to the ownership of works of art. She was one of the founding members of Art Resolve, the art claims dispute resolution service, which provides options for all out of court solutions for settling disputes.
Art has always been one of Hetty’s passions and she also has significant expertise in the area of art and cultural property law, particularly disputes relating to title, authenticity and illegally trafficked goods. She is a former member of the Treasure Valuation Committee, having sat on the Committee for 10 years.
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Hetty Gleave handles contentious matters concerning title, authenticity and looted art, and is also an experienced family lawyer.
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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.
Hetty has a wealth of experience and a wonderful manner with clients, opposing solicitors and counsel. Her approach is unfailingly outcome-led.
Hetty Gleave is very intelligent, experienced and has very good judgement about cases. She's very good at being practical and fighting a case when it needs to be fought.
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.
Hetty has a wealth of experience and a wonderful manner with clients, opposing solicitors and counsel. Her approach is unfailingly outcome-led.
Hetty Gleave is very intelligent, experienced and has very good judgement about cases. She's very good at being practical and fighting a case when it needs to be fought.