Rena Neville
August 11, 2026
Rena Neville benefits from a unique combination of art world and international legal and business experience built on a 30-year career at Sotheby’s. She has been exclusively devoted to providing art market anti money laundering consulting services since 2021, initially through her company Corinth Consulting and since 2023 as part of FCS Compliance, where she heads the Art Division. At Sotheby’s, Rena was the first Global Compliance Director, as well as serving other roles there such as European General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation. Prior to Sotheby’s, she was an associate at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.
Since 2024, she has enjoyed a variety of speaking opportunities both with the Art Law Center as well as at the following events: The Art Business Conferences in London and Maastricht; the Harvard Art Law Organization’s inaugural conference; Boston College Law School‘s art law conference; the Art Voyage Conference in London supporting the Art Voyage Biennial 2027 and as a panellist for the Fraud Women’s Network in London.
Earlier engagements included her participating in a discussion in 2023 hosted by the Financial Action Task Force discussing FATF’s inaugural report on art and antiquities, as well as participating in a panel entitled ‘Preventing and Remedying Wrongdoings in the Art Market: Which Legal Tools?‘, hosted by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council on the United Nations Crime and Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. She often writes and comments on money laundering regulations and the art market.
She is a member of the Association of Women in the Arts, an accepted service provider of the Society of London Art Dealers, the British Antique Dealers Association, a member of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market and a member of the Art Law Association.