Artwork: tax and succession issues

Steven R. Schindler is one of the founding partners of Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP, a premier litigation and art law boutique law firm. As a senior member of the firm’s litigation practice, Steve represents a broad range of clients in state and federal courts and arbitrations throughout the nation, and works closely with foreign law firms in complex transnational litigation. Steve also heads SCH’s Art Law Group. This practice area combines SCH’s formidable litigation expertise with a deep knowledge of the art market and its specific legal issues. Steve regularly advises art galleries, other art related businesses, collectors, artists, and not-for-profit corporations in the art space on transactional matters, such as the sale and acquisition of art and their relationships with dealers, banks and auction houses, and has litigated cases involving the authenticity, title, provenance and appraisals of art. Steve is on the faculty of NYU’s Steinhardt School where he teaches art law. He was the Chair of the Art Law Committee of The Bar Association of the City of New York from 2016-2019, and remains an active member of that committee. He is the co-president of the Board of Artists Space. Steve often speaks on legal and industry sponsored panels relating to current topics in art law, and is the author of numerous articles on art law. He was appointed to the original Arbitration and Mediation pools of CAfA in January 2020 and has been recognized by Chambers as a Band 1 notable practitioner for Art and Cultural Property Law in the U.S. Steve is the co-host of The Art Law Podcast.

Jérôme Barré leads the “Private Clients and Family Businesses” practice at Yards. His activity consists in assisting individuals in a national and cross border environment. More specifically, he is involved in asset transfer and restructuring operations, for individuals and also for family owned companies. His experience in banking and insurance sectors, as well as in M&A and public offerings, gives him a broad and pragmatic legal and tax background. After working as a lawyer and tax manager in the legal and financial department of AXA group, and as tax director at the « Confédération nationale du Crédit Mutuel », he spent five years as legal and tax director of Rothschild & Co. During this period, he created the wealth management tax and legal department. In 1997, he founded and developed the “Wealth and Family Businesses” department at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (Landwell & Partners). In 2002, he became a partner of Arthur Andersen International, now Ernst & Young, to manage and lead the “Wealth and Family Businesses” department. He was then partner in charge of the tax department of Franklin from 2006 to 2020. He is a partner of Yards (ex-Barré & Associés) since April 2020.

Katharina Garbers-von Boehm is one of the leading art lawyers in Germany, with a strong inter-national practice, and a founding partner at the Berlin based boutique law firm onto partners. Her practice includes complex commercial law matters, complex transactional work, matters relating to title issues, copyright matters, cultural property protection issues (im- and export of cultural goods; listing proceedings etc.), as well as the so-called “soft law” which has developed around the topic of “looted art” for all players in the art market, such as artists, fabricators, gal-leries, collectors, family offices, banks, museums, institutions, estates etc. In addition, she is ac-tive in the areas of IP and IT law across all sectors. She advises and, if necessary, litigates. Katharina has been appointed an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) and by the Camera Arbitrale di Venezia. Katharina is practicing as a lawyer since 2007. She is continuously recognized by Best Lawyers and Chambers. She has published extensively in relevant journals on intellectual property law, private clients matters, and art law. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at international con-ferences (IBA, UIA, FBA and Libralex among others) and has given lectures at the Berlin Univer-sity of Applied Sciences (HTW). Katharina´s educational background includes: law studies in Heidelberg (1997-1998), a Maîtrise en Droit (mention droit des affaires) at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) (1999-2000), law studies in Berlin (1999-2003) followed by an LL.M. in Interna-tional Studies in Intellectual Property (Exeter/Dresden) (2004); a doctorate about the digitiza-tion of museum archives (2005-2008). In January 2025, after being a partner at Büsing, Müffelmann & Theye for six years, she co-founded onto partners, a law firm advising on all key areas of business law and art law, particu-larly in matters of strategy, transactions, and operations, as well as complex commercial litiga-tion. Katharina is fluent in German, English and French and reads Italian.