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Petra Warrington

Petra has considerable litigation and transactional experience in the art, cultural property and luxury markets, acting on behalf of a wide range of private clients, businesses and institutions. Petra’s non-contentious practice involves advising clients on buying, selling and lending art and luxury assets, drafting commercial agreements and terms and conditions of business. Her dispute resolution work often involves complex issues of title, history, provenance, attribution, authenticity and value of works of art and cultural property in an international context. Petra has practical experience of the art market, having held research, collection management and business roles at museums, galleries and auction houses in the United States and London before training as a lawyer. Petra has guest lectured at Christie’s Education, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the Institute of Art and Law. She has contributed to journals and publications, including Art Antiquity and Law, the IBA’s Art law: restrictions on the export of cultural property and artwork and The Art Law Review and regularly comments in the trade press on current art law issues. · Wedlake Bell LLP

EnglandArt & Cultural Property, Luxury Goods

About

Lawyer at Wedlake Bell LLP with litigation and transactional experience in the art, cultural property and luxury markets, advising private clients, businesses and institutions on buying, selling and lending art and luxury assets and on disputes involving title, provenance, attribution, authenticity and value. She has practical market experience from roles at museums, galleries and auction houses in the United States and London and has guest lectured and published on art-law topics; she is Senior Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee.

Practice areas

Art & Cultural PropertyLuxury GoodsDispute ResolutionLitigationCommercial / Transactional

Office

Expertise

Provenance & AuthenticityTitle & Ownership DisputesArt Lending & SalesCultural Property / Export RestrictionsMuseum, Gallery & Auction House mattersArt Market Advisory

Education

  • BA, History of Art — Bryn Mawr College
  • MA — Courtauld Institute of Art