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General Counsel (UK, Europe, Middle East & Asia), PHILLIPS Auctioneers Responsible Art Market Initiative, London Committee Lead, Taskforce and Advisory Board member Mathilde is General Counsel for PHILLIPS and combines her passion for art and law by overseeing the legal aspects of PHILLIPS’ expanding international activities. In 2017 she helped to launch the Responsible Art Market Initiative (“RAM”), a not for profit initiative aimed at sharing responsible practices in the art market. She remains an active Taskforce and Advisory Board member of RAM and recently established a RAM London Committee to focus on issues affecting the UK art market. Senior legal counsel for Christie’s for 7 years, posted to London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva, Mathilde has a unique, international art law expertise and knowledge of the art market. During her time in Asia, Mathilde was involved in establishing Christie’s auction and private sale operations in mainland China. Based in Paris in 2015 she led legal support on the joint acquisition by the French Republic and Dutch State of two portraits by Rembrandt, the first joint acquisition of artwork by two States. In 2017 Mathilde founded her art law consultancy combining this with research and teaching at the University of Geneva’s Art-Law Centre. Before moving into art law, Mathilde was a Legal Director at the law firm DLA Piper specializing in intellectual property and commercial law.