Artwork: tax and succession issues

Kamala heads the Art law, Intellectual Property, Media, Technology, and Data Protection practice at the firm. She works on the management of intellectual property including trademark prosecution, copyright registration, licensing, and brand stratergy for both start-ups and large companies. Through her expertise in protecting luxury assets, she has built a specialist Art law practice including advising on NFTs, buying of paintings and sculptures for private collections, setting up trusts to house private collections and also assists high-net-worth individuals more generally on structures for investment and succession planning. Kamala is a trained mediator and has represented clients as counsel in commercial mediations and is available to sit as a neutral through Simha Law, Singapore. She has also worked on case management for large and complex arbitrations and disputes. Kamala studied law at the University Law College, Bangalore and completed her Masters in Intellectual Property Law at The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. Kamala began her career at her family-run law firm, Sundaraswamy, Ramdas & Anand, after which she co-founded JustLaw. She then went on to set up Aarna Law with Mr. Shreyas Jayasimha. As Managing Partner, she has started various initiatives to bring more women back into the workforce, including offering flexible work hours and integration of technology into the practice of law. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, these technologies allowed for a seamless transition to a work-from-home arrangement for all members of the Aarna team.

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.