William Charrington is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Team at Farrer & Co and a member of the Art & Cultural Property Team. He works on a wide variety of high-value and complex contentious matters for clients in the Museum Sector including commercial contract disputes, IP litigation and fraud. His clients include artists and museums and he has acted both for and against dealers and cultural institutions. His work for museums has included disputes concerning contested donations and the return of stolen items. He is frequently involved in cases dealing with allegations of misrepresentation over provenance, authenticity, false attribution, theft, copyright infringement and misuse of trade marks.

Paul Jones is a Partner in the IP & Commercial Team at Farrer & Co. He leads the firm’s Not-For-Profit division and is a member of the Art & Cultural Property Team. He is a commercial contracts and IP expert and his clients include the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Art Fund, with much of his work involving their collections and public programming as well as the exploitation of cultural assets, including picture libraries. He has advised on a number of highly-significant acquisitions of artworks for national collections. Paul also has a growing number of private collector/seller clients too, and regularly advises on high-value acquisitions and consignments.