Hugh Freund

United States

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP · Hugh Freund has more than 40 years of experience representing and counseling individuals and multigenerational families in their business, personal, investment, estate planning, real estate, philanthropic and fiduciary matters. In addition, he has acted as a senior counselor to on- and off-shore families and their business entities, overseeing and supervising their investment, legal and accounting professionals. Mr. Freund also has a sophisticated art law practice that includes the representation of private and public art galleries, dealers in both the primary and secondary art markets, visual artists (both painters and sculptors) and collectors, as well as commercial real estate developers for agreements for large-scale indoor and outdoor sculpture commissions. Mr. Freund is currently a member of the Board of Overseers Emeritus of The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, a trustee of The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. and an Honorary Trustee of The Parrish Art Museum. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Mr. Freund to be a Director of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation through December 2012 and, also at Mayor Bloomberg’s request, served as a Commissioner of The Art Commission of the City of New York in 2004 through 2006.

United States