Pierre Valentin

Partner

  • Education: London School of Economics, LL.M
  • Admitted: England and Wales, 1997
  • Languages spoken: French • Italian • Spanish
  • Year joined: 2003
  • Year became partner: 2006
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Overview

Pierre focuses on commercial transactions and dispute resolution involving art, antiques and design; financing transactions secured by works of art; taxation of works of art; intellectual property.

His clients include commercial art galleries, art collectors, auctioneers, museums, cultural charities and foundations, artists.

Highlights

  • Negotiating for Guggenheim Asher the purchase of a $15 million painting from a British museum
  • Litigation in the English Court against Cadogan Tate/Fine Art Logistics, specialist fine art shippers claiming to have lost a sculpture by Anish Kapoor
  • Litigation in the English court for the recovery of impressionist paintings stolen from the Bakwin collection in the USA
  • Negotiating contracts on behalf of a US curator and a US artist hired to mount a “blockbuster” exhibition in a national museum in Paris.

Publications and speaking engagements

Pierre is a regular contributor to legal journals and a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad.  He also lectures on art law at the Sotheby’s Institute and at the University of Lyon and is a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund in Britain.

Memberships

  • Art & Droit (FR)
  • Art Law Centre (CH)
  • Institute of Art & Law (UK)
  • International Bar Association

On a personal note

Pierre has lived in three countries and he speaks four languages.