Natalya Zelentsova at the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce’s briefing session “A New Approach to Investment”

On 3 July a briefing session entitled “A New Approach to Investment” was held in the studio of the well-known St. Petersburg artist Alexander Kondurov as part of a meeting of the COME IN CLUB. The overall theme of the event was the art market: its volume, financial investments, the place of the artist in the market, art foundations, and so on. Natalya Zelentsova, a lawyer in Maxima Legal’s Intellectual Property Department, highlighted the key aspects of the legal regulation of turnover in objects of pictorial art, informed those present about the copyright law relating to such objects, about the transportation of works of art which are cultural valuables out of the country and back to Russia, about matters of inheritance and other problems from her experience.

Those invited to take part in the briefing session were art historians, finance specialists, collectors, gallery owners, managers and owners of Russian and foreign companies providing support to business.