Lisette Aguilar
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Art and Cultural Property Law
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About
Provided by Lisette Aguilar
Practice Areas
Lisette specialises in art-related disputes and transactions, and also has a general commercial litigation background. During her 12 years as a senior in-house lawyer at Sotheby’s, Lisette worked on some of the most high-profile cases in the art world. Lisette’s auction-house background has given her extensive experience of handling issues arising from questions of authenticity and attribution, provenance and ownership, World War II restitution, cultural property claims, export, loss and damage, and copyright, both in Europe and Asia. Lisette also advises on contracts relating to the purchase and sale of art, both at auction and privately, as well as settlement agreements and confidentiality agreements. She frequently works with private and corporate collectors, trustees and family representatives, artists and artists’ estates, dealers, art advisors, museums and independent art experts.
Career
Lisette qualified as a solicitor in 2001. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2019, she worked at Sotheby’s, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and Slaughter and May.
Chambers Review
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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.
Strengths
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"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."
"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."
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