Art and Cultural Property Law
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 2
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Provided by Keystone Law
Our HNW lawyers offer proactive solutions, guidance and contacts to manage the family’s household, business and outside interests relating to lifestyle needs, such as dealing with the buying, selling and the protection of art and cultural property.
The acquisition, sale and ownership of art and antiques is a highly specialist field. Our UHNW team is experienced in advising individuals, business collectors, estates and trustees, galleries and dealers on the distinctive peculiarities of this niche marketplace. Our experts possess wide-ranging expertise across issues including general transactions, import or export advice and tax issues, artists’ rights, and authenticity and provenance disputes.
Chambers Review
Keystone Law works with artists, dealers, collectors and institutions on contentious and non-contentious matters. The firm's mandates range from the purchase and sale of art to ownership and restitution matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Keystone Law has good specialist knowledge, especially around intellectual property in museums and the arts."
"Keystone Law has good specialist knowledge, especially around intellectual property in museums and the arts."
Notable Practitioners
Lisette Aguilar was an in-house lawyer at Sotheby's for over a decade and brings this significant art industry experience to transactional and contentious art and cultural property matters.She advises regularly on high-value art disputes for traditional and upcoming auction houses and collectors, particularly on art fraud.
"I find her very approachable. She was very prompt in getting back to me with documents I needed or getting an answer to me if I had a question."
"I very much enjoyed working with Lisette and felt that she always tried her best for me."
"Lisette is very practical and pragmatic. She understood our objectives and helped steer where we were going on a very time-sensitive issue. She is always available."