KNOW YOUR CLIENT, KNOW YOUR ART: Due Diligence in the Art Market (CLE)

2025 updates regarding anti-money laundering regulations concerning the global art trade with a US-based perspective

(This event is in-person at Steptoe, New York [1114 Avenue of the Americas] AND Online.)

Join the Center for Art Law for a discussion on the current state of the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs), and how recent and upcoming changes affect art market participants and transactions.

The speakers will offer an update on the regulory landcape in the United States, issues with enforcement of the AML provisions as well as discuss considerations for private sector on how to stay compliant and prevent money laundering. Finally, we will share the very latest insights we have gained about regulations and enforcement in the UK as they concernt art market participants.

This is your opportunity to learn about the new edition of the Center's AML study of regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions, brush up on the upcoming changes in the UK and the US to the due diligence requirments, and to ask questions.

The event is offered in conjunction with the 2025 Art Law Summer School.

Program Fee:

• In Person (CLE): $75 Nonmember | $45 Premium Subscribers
• In Person (w/out CLE): $50 Nonmembers | $20 Premium Members | $20 Students
• Online: $ 40 (with CLE credits) | $ 10 General Public

About the Hosts and Speakers:

Andrew Adams

Andrew Adams is a partner at Steptoe’s Investigations and White Collar group. His practice draws on Andrew’s time as the acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s National Security Division, with oversight of global sanctions, export control, and national security cyber investigations; and as the inaugural Director of DOJ’s Russian Sanctions and Export Control task force. Adams also led the SDNY’s Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit, leading a team of prosecutors engaged at the nexus of transnational criminal organizations and cross-border financial networks. In each of his roles in public and private service, Andrew has counseled clients on the risks pertaining to economic sanctions and money laundering through the art market.

Lev Yuriditsky

Joining Sqope Intelligence in early 2020 with over 10 years of experience in the intelligence field, Lev directs the company's intelligence and project management divisions and its global teams of analysts, intelligence and project managers, and team leads, overseeing its strategic direction, investigating improvements to our methodology, and ensuring overall quality in our reports. In 2025, Lev also became CAMS certified. Prior to Sqope Intelligence, Lev was working as a civil-military coordinator in Jerusalem for the United Nations, entering the public sector after years of experience working for a private intelligence company, where he managed and led teams of political and security analysts covering all regions of the world, from Sub-Saharan Africa to MENA to the Americas.

Zachary Goldman

Zachary Goldman has extensive experience working on complex regulatory and enforcement matters related to OFAC sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime risk management issues. He serves as a trusted advisor for the financial services and other sectors as they seek to perform risk assessments, evaluate the AML and sanctions risks associated with new commercial activities or transactions, and develop and enhance financial crimes compliance programs. Sam has particular expertise advising banks and financial technology companies on AML and sanctions risk management issues, and in conducting internal investigations and responses to government inquiries from regulatory and enforcement authorities around the world for global banks and other financial institutions related to anti-money laundering and sanctions issues.

Irina Tarsis, Esq.

Founder and Managing Director of the Center for Art Law (NY/CH), Irina Tarsis is an art historian and a practicing attorney. She teaches art and law at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome and FIT in New York City having served on the faculty of Columbia University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and the European Shoah Legacy Institute/Provenance Research Training Workshops in Vilnius, Lithuania, Athens, Greece and Rome, Italy. Her publications include articles in the IFAR Journal, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal, Cultural Heritage & Arts Review, Library and The Cultural Record, the ArtWatch UK Journal and the Institute of Art & Law’s journal, Art Antiquity and Law.