Currently we act for more than 400 charities, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations and are recognised as one of the legal industry’s top practices for the sector. With in-depth commercial experience and awareness of the very latest developments in the sector, our clients benefit from a realistic and pragmatic approach to problem-solving in this rapidly changing legislative and regulatory environment.

Matters on which we have recently advised include:

• acting for clients bringing the first public benefit case before the Charity Tribunal – described by Sector leaders as the most significant charity law case in the last 50 years
• advising the merger parties in the UK’s largest charity merger, establishing the merger charity, advising on the transfer of the operations of the merger partners
• acting for the administrator/liquidator on one of the most complex charity insolvencies
• advising a major charity group on its brand licensing and social-franchising arrangements throughout the UK
• advising a UK charity on the worldwide reorganisation of operations of the family of charities of which it is part
• Advising on the establishment and funding arrangements of a free-standing College and HEI within the University of London.
  
  

Charity Team success at the STEP Private Client Awards 2012/13

 

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