Luxury Assets Legal Services

Our Luxury Assets Group embraces all our legal services, made up of contentious and non-contentious specialists from across the firm. It includes Art Law, Private Wealth Disputes, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Family, Reputation Protection, Insurance, Corporate and Tax. The breadth of our expertise, grounded in many years of experience, allows us to advise on a wide range of legal issues. This could be an acquisition, a sale or loan, restructuring ownership of an investment, wealth planning, lending against assets, settling in trust, administrating an estate, or seeking advice on a dispute.

We know that our clients are passionate about their luxury assets, be it ownership of a racehorse, a diamond, an island or a classic motorbike. We do everything to safeguard and protect the assets that define their lifestyle and identity.

Key Experience

Equine

We provide transactional advice across all equestrian disciplines, including ownership and part ownership agreements; import/export and tax obligations; disputes concerning all aspects of ownership and equine sport including regulatory and reputation.

Yachts

We advise on any kind of transaction or dispute that involves ownership. We can assist on litigation, tax, holding structures, employment and art on yachts. We have helped on a diverse range of vessels acquired for different purposes.

Classic cars

Our expertise covers both pre- and post-acquisition; whether this is advance due diligence or issues that arise following purchase. We can assist on a variety of marques of classic car, our advice ranging from holding structures for collections, through to litigation on disputes over title, authentication, condition, and negotiations on behalf of clients over bodywork.

Collectibles

We advise on a diverse range of collectibles and artefacts and the businesses and structures around them, including jewellery and gemstones, covering due diligence, acquisition, tax, holding structures, loan and gifting, and assistance on all types of dispute resolution.

Planes

We advise on the acquisition and disposal of high value private jets. This includes designing holding structures with particular EU VAT rules as well as assisting on the succession issues as a result of the death of the principal beneficiary (and the key user of the plane).

Real Estate

We assist with the acquisition and sale of high value residential property across the UK and central London. Recent projects include a residential development worth c.£100 million and the purchase of a polo field.