Category: Areas en

Counseling to an English bank in the purchase of a palace located on the French Riviera: legal audit of computer services, customer database and intellectual property contracts; relationship with the SACEM

Ongoing counseling to a “web agency” listed on Paris secondary market: drafting of standard contracts, negotiation and drafting of agreements for creation of internet sites, maintenance, assignment of rights, etc..; monitoring of litigation

Representation in defense of a great American museum in a proceeding initiated by the successor-in-interest of a donor of the museum in order to obtain cancellation of the donation of a large collection of impressionist paintings and objets d’art, in coordination with the museum’s American and Swiss lawyers

Counseling to a major international bank in the constitution of an art investment fund: validation of the fund’s prospectus with respect to French art law; drafting of its acquisition and brokerage contracts; establishment and legal monitoring of its procedures in acquiring works of art

Counseling to a foreign company in the recovery of works of art from its collection: establishment of a number of preventive attachments and pledges; initiation of proceedings on the merits to recover the assets and invoke the liability of its broker and a voluntary sales company; negotiation

Counseling to the purchaser of the major French editor of works of art (sculptures, prints, jewelry, furniture, etc.): audit of a portfolio of production contracts concluded with more than fifty major artists; organization of transfer of these contracts to the purchaser; monitoring of the file subsequent thereto

Action on behalf of a gallery against an artist for abusive termination of a contract. Procurement of a judgment ordering the artist to pay the production costs incurred by the gallery

Regular counseling to the successor-in-interest of a famous painter in the management of its copyrights and liquidation of the estate that includes real properties and a collection of paintings, still in joint ownership

Legal audit of all of the contracts and trademarks portfolio of an audiovisual animation group including its French Mother company and foreign subsidiaries, in the context of its sale to a foreign investment fund, coordination of the work with local lawyers in the USA and in the UK

Legal audit of all of the contracts concluded by a television channel in the context of its sale to a foreign investment fund