Patterson Belknap

New York City art law practice advising collectors, galleries, museums, estates, and cultural institutions on transactions, disputes, and collection-related legal matters. Patterson Belknap’s Art and Museum Law practice spans the primary and secondary market, with work that includes buying and selling art, art-backed financing, copyright and artists’ rights issues, and litigation tied to art-market matters.

A defining strength of the practice is its integration with the firm’s broader capabilities in trusts and estates, private-client matters, tax-exempt organizations, and institutional legal work. That makes the group especially relevant for matters involving collections, family offices, estate planning, museum governance, philanthropic structures, and other art-related legal issues that cross into wider private-client or organizational contexts.

Based in New York, the firm presents this work within a broader practice serving clients in the United States and globally.