Willem is a Co-Founder of Cadell - the first and only art advisory firm regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.  Cadell provides the Private Client industry with blue chip, truly independent advice in a sector where undeclared conflicts present a serious risk to clients.  

Willem works with over 30 top Legal Firms, Professional Trustees and Family Offices delivering professional grade selling, buying and valuation advice for art, decorative objects, furniture and jewellery worth $300-500m per year.  Cadell covers all client needs at every value level, values for individual works can range from a few thousand up to many millions.  Willem is supported by Cadell’s team of 26 highly experienced independent sector experts.  He advises on clients primarily in London, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Monaco, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. 

A former global Executive Management Board member at Christies, Willem was responsible for Group Operations. Additionally, Willem has a background in Corporate Finance, Risk Management and Management Consulting.  He has also advised major Private Equity investors in the art sector. Willem was educated at Bristol University (BSc.), Warwick Business School (MBA) and INSEAD (Executive Leadership).

Megan Noh co-chairs Pryor Cashman's Art Law Group. Her clients include individual collectors, artists, galleries, auction houses, non-profits, estates and fiduciaries.

Megan’s transactional practice is extensive, and draws upon a 360-degree perspective, including her tenure as in-house counsel to an international auction house (which has directly informed her negotiation of marquee auction consignments since returning to private practice and representation of private collectors as consignors). Megan brings a similarly well-rounded approach to her negotiation of museum exhibition loan agreements, private sale and gallery consignment agreements, appraisal and advisory engagement agreements, credit facilities using art as collateral, and other art market transactions.

As part of her contentious matters practice, Megan counsels industry stakeholders about their statutory and contractual enforcement rights, including advising collectors and artists on rights of first refusal, non-circumvention and confidentiality breaches, and unauthorized image uses. Megan also litigates copyright and artists’ rights issues, including having recently obtained judgment in favor of an artist in relation to a digital image that prejudicially distorted the artist’s work. 

Anne Laure Bandle is an attorney-at-law at the lawfim Borel & Barbey in Geneva where she advises clients in matters related to works of art, copyright, contracts, estate planning, foundations and trusts. 

Anne Laure is a lecturer in copyright, art and entertainment law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, a lecturer in art and philanthropy at the University of Geneva and a guest lecturer in cultural heritage and art law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 

Moreover, Anne Laure is the director of the Art Law Foundation, a foundation that aims to promote and coordinate the work and research in the field of art law. In particular, it supports the research and teaching activities of the Art-Law Centre.

Anne Laure is a member of the Task Force of the Responsible Art Market Initiative (RAM), the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA) executive committee, the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market (PAIAM) board as well as of the executive committee of the Musée de l’Elysée patrons club.

She holds a PhD in law from the University of Geneva. It deals with the sale of misattributed artworks and antiques at auction and is published with Edward Elgar Publishing.

Since 2015, Anne Laure writes a column for the newspaper Le Temps on the art market. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and frequently publishes on matters related to her fields of expertise. 

Anne Laure has been recognized as an expert in the field of art and cultural heritage law by Chambers and Partners 2019 and 2020.

Rudy is an art law and luxury asset specialist, advising his international clients on a variety of sector-specific matters.

Rudy advises a broad range of international clients from private collectors and artists through to art galleries and financial institutions. His practice is predominantly commercial based, such as the purchase and sale of artworks, luxury asset financing and the protection of intellectual property. He also advises clients from the classic car and fine wine worlds on the management of their collections.

Rudy is a trustee of the William Morris Gallery, the Colnaghi Foundation, the Friends of the Bargello and the Easel Initiative.  

He also lectures at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Christie’s Education, the Courtauld Institute and the Institute of Art & Law.

Rudy is admitted to practise in England and Wales.