Tim Maxwell

Tim Maxwell is Head of the Art & Luxury team and is widely recognised as one of the UK’s top art lawyers and art litigators. He combines substantial commercial litigation and private wealth experience with a pre-eminent practice dedicated to art law, cultural property law and luxury asset disputes. He is separately recognised by major legal directories for intellectual property and fraud.

Tim trained and qualified as a commercial litigator and has since acted in many of the leading cases shaping the law in the art market and cultural property sector. He is frequently instructed in disputes involving items and collections of national and international significance.

Tim advises clients across the international art market on complex and high-value litigation, arbitration, restitution claims and ownership disputes involving works of art, cultural property and heritage assets. He is regularly instructed by artists, collectors, museums, galleries, auction houses, family offices, insurers, sovereign governments, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

His practice includes provenance, attribution and authenticity disputes, fraud and forged artworks, restitution claims, artists’ rights, auction house disputes, cultural property and heritage matters, and litigation involving luxury assets including collector cars, watches, wine, and yachts.