Mr Tim Maxwell > Wedlake Bell LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Rudy Capildeo and Tim Maxwell co-lead the team at Wedlake Bell LLP, which has been praised as a ‘force to be reckoned with’ due to its ‘deep and long-standing knowledge of the art-world’. The group is ‘doing well’ and covers the full range of contentious and non-contentious matters. It advises on diverse issues relating to the buying, selling, and financing of art and luxury assets, as well as advising on international loans of art for and to museums. Clients include artists, including numerous famous street artists, in addition to collectors, financiers, philanthropists, fairs, galleries, and museums. Capildeo has particularly strong expertise in luxury asset financing, and the use of luxury assets as financial commodities. Maxwell primarily specialises in disputes and issues regarding forgeries, fraud, title, provenance, restitution, and authenticity. Petra Warrington was promoted to the partnership in April 2024 and she has considerable litigation and transactional experience.

Wedlake Bell LLP‘s ‘helpful and collaborative team’ assists with the investigation and pursuit of civil fraud claims against directors, employees and third parties, including international asset tracing. Its expertise covers search, seizure and disclosure orders, injunctions, receiverships, and freezing and proprietary injunctions. Insolvency and restructuring head Frances Coulson has ‘vast knowledge and experience’; Ed Starling heads the disputes practice; and art and luxury group co-head Tim Maxwell specialises in disputes concerning forgeries, fraud, title, provenance, restitution and authenticity.