Who we are
We are proud to deliver the highest quality of professional advice. We enjoy long-standing and trusted relationship with most of our clients, including both individuals and both nationally and internationally managed businesses.
Our highly skilled lawyers that make up the firm are headed by responsible partners of each practice area, who are personally involved in all operations and matters, ensuring a direct and agile treatment fully adapted to the individual needs of each client. We have an absolute commitment to achieving success for each and every of our clients.
Art is a matter that needs to be known. Our clients appreciate the way in which we blend our technical knowledge with practical and beneficial solutions with a focus on meeting their interests.
We highly value the importance of working as a team and in conjunction with our clients and our team of seasoned legal advisers to produce the highest quality results.
We recognize the fact that in todays world, business is conducted across multiple jurisdictions. We provide legal advice from our offices in the UK, Belgium and Spain in a global context for our international clients.
Meet Our People
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Gunna Freivalde
Senior Partner
Arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA)
Areas of Practice:
Art Law
International Transportation & Logistics
Art appraisal
Gunna is a seasoned legal advisor in estate planning and art collection management. She counsels internationally and nationally based clients in matters relating to estate planning, probate, and the taxation and administration of trusts and estates. She represents her clients in disputes involving art and artifacts, including claims involving provenance, authenticity, and export law. She has successfully defended her clients in authenticity disputes over the artworks of Keith Haring, Victor Vasarely. Gunna has been retained to represent a collector in a 1 mln US dollar artwork purchase deal and assisted her client by advising and structuring a deal for the sale of an art fair.
Gunna regularly counsels clients on the investigation and resolution of claims involving provenance, cultural property, authenticity, and copyright issues.
Gunna has been a speaker at various legal seminars and academic courses dedicated to art law and Intellectual Property matters and is an evaluator and judge at ICC Moot Court Competition for the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the International Bar Association, a member of American Transportation Lawyers Association, UK based A-law, Asociación de Escritores y Artistas Españoles, Association Belge pour la Protection et le Développement du Droit d'Auteur.
In a personal capacity Gunna is actively involved in a number of organizations and fundraising initiatives supporting important art and wildlife protection projects, is a Trustee at the UK-based Tigers4Ever Board of Trustees and volunteers at A-law, UK Centre for Animal Law.
Maria Muñoz Martínez
Associate Lawyer
Areas of Practice
International Transportation and Logistics
Dispute resolution
Arbitration
Maria is a seasoned transportation lawyer specializing in admiralty law and dispute resolution.
Practicing lawyer, admitted in Barcelona Bar Association, and legal adviser, Maria has specialized in the areas of transport and logistics law, unfair competition, claims and port management, directing procedures of great importance and complexity.
Maria speaks fluent Spanish, English, French.
Ikrame Belhassan
Legal Advisor
Areas of Practice
Entertainment law
IP
European law
Ikrame Belhassan is a young and talented law graduate specializing in Intellectual Property law, private international law, corporate law, contract drafting and management.
Ikrame is passionate for art and music and one of her areas of expertise is music law, working with matters of copyright law, NFT, royalties, music rights, licensing.
Ikrame has recently obtained her Master's degree in European law, therefore she has the most recent knowledge in the field of competition law, internal market, European regulations, etc.
OUR INTERNS
Monya Picariello
Legal Intern
Professional, creative, curious and dynamic. Graduated in Law and with a great propensity and passion for the art world. Her interests mean that her study never stops. Monya is specializing in the study of intellectual property law, copyright, international and European law.
The determination that distinguishes Monya leads her to achieve the goals she sets for herself.
