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About
Provided by Eleni Polycarpou
Practice Areas
Eleni is a litigation and arbitration specialist with long standing expertise in art law and is responsible for contentious art matters in London. She is described as someone who is ‘highly respected within the sector’ and 'very knowledgeable and exceptional with clients’, someone who ‘just gets it, knows how cases should be handled especially when it comes to the very sensitive ones’.
Eleni co-heads the firm's widely respected international arbitration practice and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators acting as counsel and as arbitrator in commercial disputes in many sectors including shipping and banking. She has acted as counsel in many high value commercial arbitration matters in a number of institutions including LCIA and ICC.
Eleni is a trusted adviser to high net worth individuals and their businesses often advising on cross- border matters including wide ranging issues appearing in the COVID pandemic. She is acting for art galleries, museums, artists and collectors in all types of art related disputes and transactions and has dealt with high profile international title disputes, consignment, provenance and authenticity disputes.
Professional Memberships
Hellenic Law Association of London; and
London Court of International Arbitration.
Chambers Review
UK
Eleni Polycarpou co-leads the professional negligence team at Withers. She is particularly active in the legal negligence space, advising both claimants and defendants and their insurers. She also has experience handling claims relating to alleged tax negligence.
Eleni Polycarpou's practice includes litigation and matters such as title disputes and international restitution matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eleni has got excellent client care skills. She is a wonderful person to work with due to her very wide experience."
"Eleni is proactive, careful and hard-working. She's determined and never gives an unnecessary inch."
"She is great from a strategy point of view. Eleni asks the right questions and sees from a client perspective what the next steps should be."
"Eleni is one of the leading lights in the field and has good relationships with auction houses. She is also nice to work with, very hard-working and good with clients."
"Eleni has got excellent client care skills. She is a wonderful person to work with due to her very wide experience."
"Eleni is proactive, careful and hard-working. She's determined and never gives an unnecessary inch."
"She is great from a strategy point of view. Eleni asks the right questions and sees from a client perspective what the next steps should be."
"Eleni is one of the leading lights in the field and has good relationships with auction houses. She is also nice to work with, very hard-working and good with clients."
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