Art and Heritage
"Payne Hicks Beach has particular expertise - there is very little about the art and cultural property sectors that the firm has not mastered"The Legal 500 UK 2020
We advise individual and trustee or executor clients in relation to their art collections and buildings and land of heritage quality.
We deal with the import and export of works of art and the negotiation of private treaty sales, conditional exemption from inheritance tax for heritage quality property, negotiating access and other undertakings, offers in lieu of tax, in situ loan agreements and the use of artworks as security.
We also act in the establishment of maintenance funds, having a particular specialism in heritage land and the negotiation of undertakings and heritage land management plans for gardens, parkland and other heritage quality landscapes.
PRACTITIONERS IN THIS FIELD
AWARDS AND ACCREDITATIONS
LEGAL 500 UK
LEADING FIRM
2021
EPRIVATECLIENT
TOP LAW FIRM
2020
SOLICITORS JOURNAL Awards
SHORTLISTED FIRM
2016
STEP Private Client Awards
FINALIST:
Private Client Legal Team of the Year (midsize firm)
2016/17