The Art Law Review - 2nd Edition

Lawrence M Kaye is the managing member of Kaye Spiegler. Larry has a diverse commercial art practice, advising dealers, collectors, artists, museums and estates in transactional matters, including the acquisition and sale of world-renowned works of art, art loan and exhibition agreements, Section 1031 (of the United States Internal Revenue Code) exchanges, insurance and authentication issues, and financings using art as collateral. Larry also represents a wide range of domestic and international clients in all types of complex art litigation and dispute resolution, including issues about authenticity and authentication, artist–dealer relationships and contractual disputes related to the purchase and sale of artworks. Larry has represented foreign governments, victims of the Holocaust, families of renowned artists and other claimants in the recovery of art and antiquities. Larry also advises and represents foreign governments in matters related to cultural property and, in that regard, among other things, served as legal adviser to the Republic of Turkey’s delegation to the diplomatic conference where the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects was adopted. He has written and lectured extensively on mediation and arbitration of art law disputes.

Howard N Spiegler is a member of Kaye Spiegler. He handles all types of art transactions, including counselling its clients on international trade issues, loans, museum and private exhibitions, organising and structuring business entities, trust and estate matters, insurance issues, tax questions and criminal law concerns. Howard has also been involved in several significant cases recovering stolen artwork or other cultural property, including rare books stolen from the Swedish National Library; the full value of a Schiele painting confiscated by a Nazi agent from Lea Bondi Jaray in Austria in the late 1930s; 200 artworks looted by the Nazis from the Jacques Goudstikker Gallery in the Netherlands; numerous antiquities for the Republic of Turkey; and valuable Malevich paintings recovered for the Malevich family from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Among other commendations, he has received the Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Defence of Art by the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art and the Prix Monique Raynaud-Contamine by the International Association of Lawyers.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Art Crime and has served as president and vice president of the Art Law Commission of the International Association of Lawyers and chair of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.