Speaker Biographies Rudy Capildeo, Associate, Boodle Hatfield Rudy Capildeo is Associate at Boodle Hatfied where he advises artists, art galleries/dealers, auction houses, museums

and private collectors on a variety of matters including acquisitions and disposals, agency terms, art finance, dispute

resolution, due diligence, imports and exports, insurance, intellectual property, museum/gallery loans, start-ups and

taxation. Rudy is a member of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market and of the Institute of Art and

Law.

Tom Christopherson, Head of Art & Law Studies, Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London Tom Christopherson is a solicitor and Head of Art & Law Studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art-London, having been a Senior Director and European General Counsel of Sotheby’s 1997-2013, Freshfields 1989-1996 and previously Withers. Tom served for several years on the Committees of the British Art Market Federation and the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers, is a member of PAIAM and is the current Master of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars. Robert Lands, Partner, Head of IP & Commercial, Howard Kennedy LLP As Head of Intellectual Property and Commercial law at London law firm, Howard Kennedy LLP, Robert Lands helps clients protect and commercially exploit their intellectual property. He also Chairs the IP Section of Meritas, the world’s largest alliance of independent law firms. Robert advises clients from a range of industries but has a particular focus on the visual arts. He has been a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools and the Royal College of Art and acts for a number of galleries, artists and arts institutions. Clarissa Vallat, Director, Tax & Heritage, Sotheby’s Formerly a solicitor in the private client department of a London law firm, Clarissa Vallat joined Sotheby’s Tax and Heritage Department in 2012. Clarissa's work for clients ranges from advising on the export of works of cultural significance, private treaty sales to UK institutions, heritage exemptions and valuations for tax purposes, to the negotiation of leases of personal possessions. She speaks on heritage and taxation issues at a variety of events. Clarissa graduated in French and Spanish from Oxford University and has also worked in law firms in France and Spain. Pierre Valentin, Partner, Constantine Cannon LLP Pierre Valentin started Constantine Cannon LLP in London in 2012. The firm is affiliated with Constantine Cannon LLP in the USA where it has offices in New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C.

Pierre heads Constantine Cannon’s international art law practice. His clients include commercial art galleries, art dealers, art collectors, auction houses, museums, artists, private banks and art investment funds. He advises them on transactions involving art and antiques, financing against art, the taxation of art, intellectual property, alternative investments and dispute resolution. He was formerly Associate General Counsel and a senior director of Sotheby’s and more recently a partner of Withers LLP.

Pierre speaks French, Italian and Spanish. Aside from his day job as a lawyer, he is a trustee of the Artists’ Collecting Society. Until July 2016, Pierre was also chairman of the Board of Trustees of World Monuments Fund Britain.

Pierre is ranked in Legal Directory Chambers UK 2017 as one of the top two leading art lawyers and is “one of the best exponents of art law in the business," according to an interviewee. He has extensive experience advising collectors, galleries, museums, artists and auction houses on a wide variety of matters. "Pierre lives and breathes art law. He is very well respected and known by clients and other professionals in the art market as the go-to lawyer, particularly where there is a contentious angle," says one source.