Art Law in London: What’s New in …
April 28, 2025
Artificial Intelligence is an expanding technology that needs to be understood and regulated to protect the rights of creators. AML efforts are on the rise to protect art market and its participants from enabling illicit financial transactions. Sanction regimes are evolving to increasingly affect art dealers and collectors. Center for Art Law hosted a roundtable discussion with Fieldfisher in London where our expert panelists delved into the obligations imposed on the visual arts sector by different regulations and provided valuable insights on the challenges and opportunities they present. This event was sponsored by Fieldfisher Paris.
Meet our Speakers:
Atreya Mathur is the Director of Legal Research at the Center for Art Law. She received her Master of Laws from New York University School of Law where she specialized in Competition, Innovation, and Information Laws, with a focus on copyright, intellectual property, and art law. She is an attorney from India and also co-founded m e r a k i consultancy, a consultancy service focused on legal academia and higher education in law.
Aaron Taylor, a commercial barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, whose practice includes civil fraud, banking and finance, energy, commercial crime, and aviation. Aaron has a particular interest in, and experience of, art & cultural property disputes – in particular cases involving allegations of fraud or fakes/forgeries. He lectures on art law at the London School of Economics, and will be a Visiting Fellow in art law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the Easter Term 2025. He regularly writes and gives talks about matters of art & cultural property law, and is currently working on a book about fraud, fakes, and financial crime in the art market (for publication in early 2027).
Alice Vink, partner at Fieldfisher is a personal tax and wealth planning specialist, with a particular focus on international structuring and wealth preservation. She will discuss recent and upcoming issues concerning the UK taxation of internationally mobile individuals and their assets, including succession, international relocation of artwork, and potential planning opportunities.
Moderator:
Irina Tarsis, attorney and Founder of the Center for Art Law.
Special thanks to Rakhi Talwar (RTalwar Compliance), Damla Karabay and Natalie Shtangrud (Center for Art Law), and Noor Kadim (Fieldfisher).
About Fieldfisher:
Fieldfisher Paris have the skills and knowledge necessary to provide services to a broad range of industries and businesses including, in particular, key economic growth sectors such as healthcare, environment, new technologies, the luxury sector, financial institutions, and fintech. Legal counsel and litigation services are intrinsically linked and both are an essential part of our practice.
