Counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Anne-Laure Alléhaut is Counsel in Patterson Belknap’s Art and Museum Law practice. Anne-Laure started her career at Skadden Arps in M&A before serving as a Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s legal transactional team, negotiating many of the auction house’s most complex and high value transactions while also overseeing Sotheby’s advisory, appraisal and valuation departments.

Anne-Laure brings 18 years of law firm and in-house experience to the art industry and draws on her broad and deep experience to advise her clients with speed and efficiency. Her client base includes private collectors, galleries, estates, start-ups, art dealers, museums, advisors and financial institutions.

Anne-Laure is a graduate of Université Paris X, Nanterre and Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from Cornell University.

Senior Research Associate, CLAPES- UC// Catholic University of Chile

Arturo Cifuentes brings more than thirty years of experience in the financial sector. His background is wide and diverse and spreads over many areas such as asset management, fixed income, derivatives, risk management, securitization, financial litigation, and regulation.

He has written extensively about the art market and taught a course at Columbia Business School on the topic. More recently, he co-authored (with Ventura Charlin) The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets, which was published by Columbia University Press. The book was a Silver Medal Winner, in the Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing category (2024 Axiom Business Book Award).

Arturo holds a Ph.D. in applied mechanics and a M. S. in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech); an MBA in finance from New York University.

Vice President, Lending Specialist and Auctioneer at Sotheby's

Eliza Cuddy is a leading art lending specialist at Sotheby’s Financial Services based in New York. She also became an auctioneer in 2023 and can be seen on the rostrum selling anything from wine to contemporary art.

Before joining Sotheby’s in 2013, Eliza worked as an Assistant to David Zwirner, supporting gallery openings, special events and art fairs. Previously, she was Gallery Assistant at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Eliza graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University with a BA in both Economics and Art History.

Eliza lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and son.

Chief Executive Officer, Athena Art Finance; Managing Director, Art Investments, Yieldstreet

A leader in the fused worlds of art, finance and law, Rebecca Fine was recently ranked on the Business of Art Power List. She is the CEO of global art lender Athena Art Finance, a top 5 US art lender and the leading non-bank lender.

Hailing from 3 generations of women artists and gallerists, Rebecca has a deep passion for art and an understanding of a multitude of perspectives on the art market. She and her all-women art finance team also manage Art Investments for Yieldstreet, the leading private market alternative investments platform. Since joining Yieldstreet in 2019, Rebecca’s team has launched 8 diversified art debt offerings, and 5 diversified art equity funds.

Prior to founding Athena in 2015, Rebecca was a law partner, representing world-renowned art galleries, museums, foundations, and private collectors, and litigated disputes involving title, authenticity, attribution ,and restitution claims. Prior to that, Rebecca was a litigator at the law firms of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wilmer Hale, where she acted as counsel to corporations and UHNWIs in complex multijurisdictional matters. She is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School.

Founder, ArtCrossing.io

Viktoria Prigarina started her finance career at Morgan Stanley, followed by options trading and structuring at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. She has lived and worked in Brazil where she created a capital raising platform for what is now a $15 billion hedge fund—SPX Capital and has served as a Member of the Investment Committee of the firm. Viktoria holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University and a B.B.A. with concentrations in finance and comparative literature and minor in Latin American Studies from Baruch College. Viktoria has been passionate about the arts throughout her life, has pioneered the Art Market Symposia and founded ArtCrossing.io—a forum where art market professionals and art enthusiasts come together to discuss the most pertinent topics in today’s art market.

Managing Director of Winston Art Group

Elizabeth von Habsburg is Managing Director of Winston Art Group, the largest independent art advisory and appraisal firm in the US. The firm’s 75 specialists cover all areas of fine and decorative art through US offices in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Palm Beach, Chicago, Denver and Houston, and worldwide representation in London, Geneva and Tel Aviv. Prior to Winston Art Group, Elizabeth was President of the US operations of an international appraisal firm for 18 years, and before that, she was Vice President of Habsburg Auctioneers. She started her career at Christie’s as Assistant Vice President in charge of the Appraisal department. Elizabeth’s BA is from Stanford, in International Relations, and her MA is from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She was a Board Member of the Appraisers Association of America from 2003-2015, and was a 2008-2015 Trustee and 2014 Chair of The Appraisal Foundation in Washington, DC. Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Morgan Library and of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and a member of ArtTable, Inc. She is a Director of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, and on the Board of Trustees of Christie’s Education. Elizabeth has qualified as expert witness in Fine Art and Decorative Art in the NY, Palm Beach, Philadelphia and Texas courts, and lectures worldwide on all aspects of art. She is Certified by AAA in Modern and Impressionist art and European Furniture and Works of Art, and is compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). She revised four Antiques Hunters Guides (2000-2001), contributed to “Fine Art and High Finance” (2009), to the Appraisal Handbook (2012), and to “Regulation of Art Investments” (not yet published). In 2015, she was named one of the Fifty Most Influential Women in Private Wealth, by Private Asset Management.