Laure Assumpçao
- Organisation
- UGGC Law Firm
- Biography
- Laure Assumpçao is a partner at UGGC Avocats. She was trained in France and the United States and is a registered attorney in Paris and New York. She regularly represents and advises a wide range of domestic and international clients within the art sector. Laure has thus been working for more than ten years for museums, private collectors, art organization, galleries, auction houses and dealers. She frequently handles actions to void sales of inauthentic artworks, restitution cases or criminal cases in the illicit traffic in cultural goods. Laure is also involved in complex cross-border litigation and commercial arbitration cases. Over the years, Laure has acquired extensive knowledge and experience of the art market sector and its transactional and litigation issues. She has also been developing a practice in alternative dispute resolutions in the art sector. Prior to joining UGGC Law Firm, Laure was a trainee in a French auction house registered at Drouot and then in the legal department of Sotheby’s France. These experiences have made her particularly aware of the concerns of the art law sectors and its actors. Laure regularly publishes articles related to the art law matters and gives several classes in art law for professionals and students. She is ranked Rising Star by The Legal 500 in Art Law.