Collectibles
The legal needs of collectors are necessarily diverse. Our cross-firm team is equipped to provide tailored advice and support to clients whatever the makeup of their collections.
We support the preservation of collections' integrity and value, ensuring they can be appreciated and enjoyed with confidence and peace of mind.
What we do:
- Acquisition and sale
- Asset finance
- Disputes
- Reputation management and media handling
- Gifts and philanthropy
- Global mobility: export, import, repatriation and VAT
- Tax and estate planning
- Intellectual property issues
Recent experience:
- Successfully advising the owners of a rare and valuable diamond regarding a dispute over the right to purchase the diamond.
- Advising a UHNW individual on the sale of a collection of antiquities, including advice on import taxes, demonstrating title to the collection and the sales agreement with an auction house.
- Advising a lender on loans secured against valuable jewellery collections stored in the UK and abroad.
- Assisting a private client in taking security over a share in a champagne house as part of a divorce settlement.
- Advising a lender client on the financing of a culturally significant collection of rare gemstones and working with an international government in relation to export authorisations required.
- Advising on the acquisition and resale of a very rare and valuable violin.
- Adding a wine collection into an offshore trust structure (including a financing element).
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