Legal matters for artists, gallerists, and collectors with art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn.
Laurens Kasteleijn, art lawyer and founder of Art Law Services.
Ep.1 | As a former art gallery director and corporate Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, Laurens Kasteleijn founded Art Law Services in 2013, combining his passion for the arts, his formal legal training and his expertise of international business. Laurens has lectured on ‘Legal Issues in the Art World’ at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Hong Kong and London, and writes frequently on this subject.
Laurens Kasteleijn is the founder of Art Law Services, a Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based consultancy that is offering legal services to individuals and organisations in the international art world.
As a former art gallery director and corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, Laurens founded Art Law Services in 2013, combining his love for the arts with his legal training and his expertise of international business. Laurens holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, studied in France and at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Laurens has lectured on ‘Legal Issues in the Art World’ at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Hong Kong and in London, and writes frequently on this subject. He is the co-author of the Dutch chapter of the IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee report.
In addition to holding the position of Chair of the Art and Law Association in the Netherlands, he is a member of the Royal Asian Art Society, committee member of the IPBA, member of PAIAM, legal committee member of the Art Identification Standard, and a contributor to the Responsible Art Market initiative in Switzerland.
In 2021 he founded a new company ‘Kasteleijn Mediation & Arbitration’ that specialises in solving art disputes for which Laurens is a registered mediator with the Court of Arbitration of Art (CAfA) in The Hague.
Website: www.artlawservices.com
Linkedin: Art Law Services
Instagram: @art.law.services
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