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Art & Heritage Assets

Quastels has a team of art law specialists who advise clients in the art market, including artists, dealers, collectors and other art market participants. We have a particular focus on art related disputes and restitution claims. Our lawyers have represented clients in the High Court in some of the largest and most high-profile authenticity disputes of the 21st Century.

Art & Heritage Assets

An introduction to Quastels for Art & Heritage Assets

We represent artists, collectors, dealers, galleries, and leading art market participants in resolving complex, high-stakes art related disputes. Our work spans authenticity, attribution, title, and provenance challenges, as well as cultural heritage and export issues. 

Our lawyers have a track record in landmark High Court cases, including some of the most significant authenticity disputes of the 21st century. We combine deep art market insight with rigorous legal strategy to protect our clients’ interests in an increasingly scrutinised art world.

We also work alongside leading specialists, investigators, forensic scientists, and art historians, to help clients authenticate, attribute, and research works ranging from modern masterpieces to antiquities. Our team is able to guide clients through these investigations and advises on all potential claims that may arise. 

In partnership with our award-winning private wealth team, we are able to provide strategic advice on art-related estate planning, wills, trusts, and tax. 

Our lawyers are consistently recognised in Spear’s 500, Legal 500, eprivateclient NextGen Leaders, and Citywealth’s Top 50 FinTech, TMT & AI Lawyers, underscoring the depth and breadth of expertise we bring to every matter. 

Art & Heritage Assets

Our Art services

Quastels’ Art and Heritage Assets solicitors provide comprehensive litigation advice for collectors, artist, collectors, galleries, dealers and other art market participants.

Art & Cultural Heritage services

Dispute Resolution

Our art litigation team covers all art related disputes with recent/particular expertise in:

  • Authenticity, provenance, and attribution investigations and disputes
  • Title investigations and disputes
  • Recovery of artworks and consignment disputes
  • Disputes related to artists’ estates and the admission of artworks to the relevant catalogue raisonné
  • Cultural heritage disputes relating to international treaties controlling the sale and export of artworks and antiquities
  • Restitution claims
Dispute Resolution

Art & Heritage Assets services

Private Wealth & Tax

Strategic estate planning for those with art collections, or digital art such as NFTs.  

  • Art, Trusts & Tax
  • Inheritance Tax
  • Estate Planning
  • Digital Assets (NFTs)
Private Wealth & Tax

The Quastels Team

Our Art & Heritage Assets

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Thomas Klemme

Partner

Contentious Private Wealth

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Jonathan Gross

Partner

Commercial Real Estate

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Ben Rosen

Partner

Private Wealth & Tax

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