Simon Fitzpatrick Email & Phone Number

Simon Fitzpatrick is a Partner and Head of Litigation at Boodle Hatfield LLP. Founder and head of the Art law team, Art Law and More. at Boodle Hatfield LLP. He possess expertise in commercial litigation, art law, agroc.

Listed skills include Commercial Litigation, Art Law, and Agroc.

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  Partner And Head Of Litigation

  Boodle Hatfield Llp

  Sep 1989 - Present - London, United Kingdom

  My practice covers a broad range of commercial litigation. As leader of the commercial litigation team, I provide services to a range of clients including high net worth individuals and privately owned companies, recently advising on:Art law and Art litigationContractual disputesClaims for breach of warrantyProfessional negligence claimsFamily business disputesCommercial Agents RegulationsMisrepresentation claimsPartnership and Shareholder disputesDebt recoveryEmployment litigationProceedings based on the Hotel Proprietors ActProperty disputesMuch of his work is for international clients and involves working with lawyers in other jurisdictions to resolve commercial disputes both in this country and abroad. Boodle Hatfield is the London member of TAGLaw, a global alliance of high quality, independent law firms with more than 4,000 lawyers worldwide. I head up our relationship with that network.I am the founder and head of the firm's Art law and More team and have specialist knowledge of arts disputes including misattribution, auction house negligence, authenticity and provenance claims and disputes relating to title.Art law continues to be part of Boodle Hatfield's DNA due to the firm's excellent reputation in this field. We are well known for our advice on significant art law litigation matters and are recognised as a premier adviser to those who have very valuable art collections which give rise to the need for highly specialist advice. We also provide commercial and pragmatic advice to galleries, artists and auction houses. I was a founder board member of Mayfair Art Weekend. I also advise on strategy for Better Bankside as a board member, so I am embedded in the arts and cultural communities of Mayfair and Bankside, two of London's busiest art hubs.I am also a founding member of PAIAM (Professional Advisers to the International Arts Market).