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Perhaps more than any other asset, art can form part of a client’s or family’s identity. Whether this is a collection built up over multiple generations, or a portfolio carefully curated for maximising investment potential, art is a specialist asset class and occupies both business and pleasure.
While the art is something to be enjoyed, clients often face challenges with its ownership. As the lives of art owning families become increasingly international, and the values of individual pieces reach sometimes incredible heights, the fiscal governance over portfolios is becoming increasingly important to ensure that wealth is not eroded by taxation, unnecessarily depressed transaction values, fraud or theft.
As assets are capable of surviving multiple generations, it is important to correctly structure the ownership of art portfolios to ensure long term asset protection, while remaining empathetic to the particular piece of art. Whether dealing with the private ownership of an old master kept at the family home, or a dynamic portfolio of modern art lent out to galleries or moved between houses or yachts, we will maintain strong governance over the collections held in the appropriate structures.
We help our clients with the purchase, sale, ownership and management of art portfolios through our network of industry specialists. From choosing to sell via auction or private sale, to keeping art onboard superyachts or preparing for the transfer of portfolios through the generations, we will carefully and sensitively coordinate projects to align with our clients’ varied needs.
Through our network of trusted professionals, we are able to support our clients with a wide range of art services from structured ownership, reporting and accounting, to facilitating the lending of art, financing and ownership transfer.
“At JTC we understand the role that art plays in the lives of some of our clients, which means that we can empathetically provide support and solutions for our clients to purchase, own and sell artwork”.
We operate around the principle that if our people have a stake in the business, they will do a better job for our clients.
Over 83% of our employees hold a relevant professional qualification or are working towards this through our dedicated JTC Academy.
We operate a variety of best-in-class systems to deliver and maintain an impeccable standard of administration and use technology to innovate in both service delivery and efficiency.
We aim to work with clients who share our belief in the importance of building strong relationships over time.
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