Heritage and cultural institutions

We advise national and regional museums, galleries, libraries and archives, historic houses, learned societies, livery companies and old associations of makers and members. Several have been our clients for more than a decade.

Their difficulties are particular: claims for the return of objects, questions about how collections were acquired or funded, disputes among members or trustees, recalls and safety issues with things they have made or sold, and the discovery that something long believed is not quite true. They are institutions that measure their reputations in centuries, and they tend to want to say either nothing or everything. We help them find the right amount.