Museum exhibitions

Museums rely on the firm’s core strength in business transactions, including general business planning, setting up private museums and foundations, ongoing advice, tax-efficient giving to the arts, and gifts and bequests.

We assist both the museums and the art collectors/investors on a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the acquisition of new artworks to matters of governance, gifts and legacies, loans and fund-raising. In addition, we have direct experience with museum-specific issues such as copyright and trademark issues, licensing and merchandising, ownership disputes, Holocaust-era clams, authenticity and attribution disputes, art fraud, repatriation claims, insurance disputes, and the like.

Our in-depth understanding of our clients comes from our experience of working directly with museums globally. Our lawyers have sat on various boards of directors, as in-house counsel and trustee. They have authored major works in the field and have served as members of advisory councils and committees of museums and cultural institutions across world.