The team at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP is well-equipped to assist its roster of clients with the remit of contentious and non-contentious cases. Suzanne Marriott heads up the team and has particular expertise advising on tax and estate planning matters involving art and chattels, including advising artists and collectors on the structuring of art ownership for tax, succession, licences, gift schemes and loans. Robert Blower has experience advising on tax-related aspects of art, in particular with Acceptance in Lieu and Inheritance Tax Conditional Exemption Applications, where significant art collections and high-value assets are involved. Louise Paterson also has expertise advising on trusts, tax and succession.
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‘Art and cultural property law draws on so many areas of practice: commercial contractual work; tax and succession planning; charity law, and so on. The team at CRS is in the happy position of being able to draw from the firm's undoubted strengths across all of those areas. The client base is correspondingly broad and high quality: from old money families to new; from charities to commercial concerns.’
‘Suzanne Marriott is a star and I have recommended her to clients with art collections.’
‘An exceptionally strong private client department.’
'Bart Peerless has built and maintains a very strong team in this area from his experience in the private client field, and his appointment as senior partner has strengthened it still further.'
'Robert Blower has huge experience, is technically expert, and has a very sure and steady hand.'
'In my experience, they remain first class and continue to merit a ranking in the top tier. The taxation issues affecting art and cultural property are varied and complex, and change every year.'
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Practice head
Suzanne Marriott
Other key lawyers
Bart Peerless; Robert Blower; Sarah Wray; Louise Paterson; Charlotte Hill; Racheal Muldoon; Terence Bennett; Stewart Hey