Amelia K. Brankov

Amelia K. Brankov advises companies and individuals on litigation and transactional matters, with a particular focus on arts and culture.

In her art law practice, Ms. Brankov advises galleries, collectors, artist studios, artist estates and foundations, curators, art advisors, appraisers, conservators, publishers, and startups. She assists clients in all legal aspects of transactions involving artwork including purchase agreements, consignment agreements, commission agreements, and loan agreements. She also represents clients in disputes concerning the rights to artwork and artists' legacies, as well as business disputes among various players in the art world. She has litigated cases involving artworks by numerous well-known American artists including John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Norman Rockwell, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, and many others. In her transactional practice, she has advised on the purchase, consignment, and sale of art and cultural property spanning from treasures of the ancient empires to works created by some of the most sought-after artists working today.

As a well-rounded litigator, Ms. Brankov helps businesses and individuals in the creative sector resolve a wide range of dispute-resolution matters. Her practice includes advising on complex disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, copyright infringement, and the right of publicity. She has appeared in federal and state trial and appellate courts around the country and has represented clients in mediations and arbitrations nationwide.

Ms. Brankov has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and writes and lectures frequently on art law and intellectual property law issues. She is the Chair of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Chair of Trusts & Estates magazine’s Art, Antiques & Auctions editorial advisory committee. She is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Art Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association. She contributed the New York chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Art Law 2018, 2019, and 2020 (Law Business Research). She has been named a Super Lawyer in New York for business litigation and intellectual property every year since 2013, and is included on Super Lawyer’s Top 50: Women New York Metro-Area (2022) list. She is admitted to practice in New York and Texas.

Ms. Brankov is an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School. She teaches a course in art law to students pursuing their Master’s degrees in Arts Administration.

Prior to founding her own firm in 2021, Ms. Brankov practiced law at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC and started her career as a litigation and arbitration associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.