Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
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The team at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP boasts longstanding experience in art law matters, handling a range of authenticity disputes, consignment agreements, and new media agreements. The team draws on wider firms experience in alternative dispute resolution, tax, and trusts and estates to support clients including artists, collectors, galleries, dealers, auction houses, and museums. Daniel Weiner and Meaghan Gragg co-head the practice, both offering extensive expertise in complex disputes, including internationally.
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Key clients
- Sompo International Holdings Ltd.
- Sotheby’s, Inc.
- Phillips Auctioneers LLC
- Alan Howard
- Aso O. Tavitian Foundation
- Hauser & Wirth
- Brooklyn Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- High Net Worth Art Collectors
- The Monastery of Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa, the Metropolis of Drama, and His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople
- Satfinance Investment Limited
- Performance Space New York
Work highlights
Representing Sompo Holdings and its affiliates in a Chicago federal court lawsuit seeking the return of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting and $1.5 billion in damages, with a federal judge dismissing the case due to lack of jurisdiction.
Representing Sotheby’s in a legal dispute over the sale of Picasso’s Le Peintre, where a buyer defaulted on payment and a subsequent purported purchaser fraudulently used the painting as loan collateral.
Successfully defended Phillips in a Florida lawsuit over Yayoi Kusama’s sculpture All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, which had been fraudulently pledged by art dealer Inigo Philbrick to multiple parties.