Sales are also held around the world in New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, and Sydney.

Bonhams holds more than 450 sales a year in more than 60 collecting areas, including Asian art, pictures, cars and jewellery.

Brooks continued a major acquisition programme aimed at creating a new international fine art auction house.

Acquisition activity continued, and in 2002 Bonhams purchased Butterfields, a leading auction house on the West Coast founded in 1865.

The company's worldwide network of sales included two major London venues, nine additional UK locations, and salerooms in Australia, Switzerland, Monaco, Germany and the US.

Bonhams & Butterfields conducted its first East Coast sale in 2003 with an auction of Edwin C. Jameson's collection of classic cars and antiques in Massachusetts, US.

In October 2005, Bonhams gained full independence after buying back a 49.9% stake held by French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH.

[6] In March 2008, Bonhams New York moved to new salerooms on the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue, formerly the home of the respected Dahesh Museum of Art.

In 2013, Bonhams opened its new headquarters at 101 New Bond Street, designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands; and in 2015 it completed a seven-figure refurbishment of its Knightsbridge saleroom.