The year 2020 has been one of uncertainty and challenge for the art market at least as much as for any other sector, with the market having to address the challenges of significantly increased levels of regulation while at the same time dealing with the real-time effects of the covid-19 pandemic and the uncertainties around the looming departure of the UK from the EU. Read full article

On 20 January 2021, Pierre Valentin contributed to a webinar on luxury assets organised by the Private Dining Club.

On 3 February 2020, Azmina Jasani joined fellow market professionals, colleagues and advisors at the “It’s not me, it’s you” AWITA X PAIAM forum to discuss significant challenges of Brexit for the art market, only exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.  Azmina hosted a roundtable discussion on online art sales.  

On 6 February 2021, Azmina Jasani lectured at the Institute of Art and Law on the enforceability of force majeure provisions in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.  She provided IAL students examples of how courts in New York and London have interpreted and enforced force majeure clauses in various agreements.

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In an article for the RICS, Azmina shares insights on the tighter legislation against money laundering being introduced in the UK and US. The art market must take reform seriously. A failure to do so poses significant risks. Read here

On 22 April 2021, Azmina Jasani and Till Vere-Hodge joined forces with international law and cultural property specialists at Foley Hoag LLP to present to State sovereign experts on protecting cultural property, both domestic and abroad. To learn more, email us at info@constantinecannon.co.uk

Bringing her two worlds together, Azmina provided a legal perspective from both New York and London at the Federal Bar Association’s Virtual Art Law Conference. Azmina presented alongside co-panellists Sherri North Cohen and Karen Boyer, with the panel moderated by Amelia Brankov. To learn more, email us at info@constantinecannon.co.uk

Azmina Jasani authored an article, When artists and galleries split, what are the legal implications?, on navigating splits between artists and galleries in the Art Newspaper, dated 13 Feb 2020.

Azmina Jasani spoke at the RICS Valuation Conference in London on the topic of commissions in art transactions, flagging the difference between a commission versus a profit, highlighting the circumstances under which a commission can be deemed “secret” and thereby unlawful and discussing recent case law and best practices.

Azmina Jasani authored an article for the Trust & Estates Magazine’s: Art, Auction and Antiques Issue on the new anti-money laundering regulations that came into effect on 10th of January 2020. Article dated, Mar 26, 2020.

Azmina Jasani contributed as a panellist on a webinar focusing on copyright infringement.  Topics for conversation included: appropriation v. plagiarism, fair dealing v. fair use, inspiration v. copying and what it takes to get legal proceedings going. Watch Here

On 30 September 2020, Azmina Jasani chaired and moderated a PAIAM Webinar entitled, In Conversation with Artists Alvaro Barrington and Rana Begum: Empowering Diverse Voices in the Art Market.  The Webinar explored the artists’ experiences navigating the international art market and their views on how to enhance, empower and elevate diverse voices within the art market. Watch Here

On 29 October 2020, Pierre Valentin spoke at the Miami 14th Annual European AML & Financial Crime Conference on the topic of ‘Art as a Fraud Masterpiece: New Considerations for Fraud Practitioners Amid the Inigo Philbrick Case’

In November 2020, Pierre Valentin gave a series of lectures to students enrolled in the post graduate Art & Business programme of the ESA Business School in Beirut, Lebanon.

On 1 December 2020, Azmina Jasani, a Partner in our Art & Cultural Property Law Group, was recognised as one of the top 10 trailblazing women from around the globe working in the area of art law.  See link Here.

On 3 December 2020, Pierre Valentin chaired the second ICRA annual conference on ‘Provenance and the Catalogue Raisonné’. He also chaired one of the panels on Provenance and the Law.