Howard Spiegler

Partner, Herrick Feinstein, New York

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Howard N. Spiegler is a partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP and co-chair of its International Art Group, which counsels museums, galleries, dealers, auction houses, artists, collectors, foreign governments and owners on any issues arising from art transactions or disputes. Mr. Spiegler has been involved in several litigations brought on behalf of foreign governments and heirs of Holocaust victims and others to recover cultural property, including recoveries on behalf of the Republic of Turkey of numerous valuable antiquities and the currently pending litigation brought on behalf of the Estate of Lea Bondi Jaray to recover a Schiele painting, Portrait of Wally, confiscated by a Nazi agent in Austria in the late 1930's. He recently resolved an action on behalf of the heirs of Kazimir Malevich, the world-renowned 20th Century Russian artist, against the City of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which resulted in the recovery by the heirs of five Malevich paintings.