Art Law - Everything You Have Ever Wanted to Know
Come join us for a special evening meeting and listen to Joy Berus discuss the various legal issues surrounding art collections. She will share her expert knowledge on owning art and other collections, art as an asset class, appraisal law, tax law and other art law.
Joy Berus is a nationally known expert in the practice of art law with over 20 years of experience. Her unique practice focuses on art and other tangible assets as an asset class with the goal of maximizing value and minimizing tax liability. She has unique and specialized knowledge in art law, personal property law, tax law, appraisal law, UCC, and transactional law. She serves the needs of individual, corporate and museum clients who own all types of tangible assets from paintings, sports memorabilia, jewelry, and wine to classic cars.
She has assisted individual owners and collectors, corporate collectors, museums, foundations, banks and trust companies, historical property owners, artists, writers, appraisers, and gallery owners.
She represents and assists clients in purchases, sales, consignments, charitable contributions, valuations, unique personal property estate planning provisions, estate settlements and distributions, holding companies, loans to museums, loans using art as collateral, collection management, museum administration, copyright, contract negotiations and historical real property matters.
Prior to forming her own practice, she was a partner for over twenty years in a California law firm where she focused on building her practice in art law, business law and property law.
