Court Documents: Yves Bouvier's second Section 1782 bid for Sotheby's records
Records from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
This page hosts the court records behind Urgent Matter's reporting on Yves Bouvier's second application for U.S. judicial assistance, filed in the Southern District of New York in July 2026.
The records are a declaration by attorney Phillipe Valant filed in Bouvier's ex parte application, which seeks records from Sotheby's for use in a criminal proceeding in France where Jean-Marc Peretti is named as a defendant. The complaint in the French case is also included.
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