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Philip Reed

Associate

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Practice areas

  • Charity and Community

Philip is a specialist charities lawyer who helps some of the leading charities and not-for-profit organisations in the country to deliver their work.

Philip moved into charity law in 2011 after training in the City, so he could support clients who set out to make a positive impact; since then, the organisations and individuals he has worked with, as well as the sector more widely, have not disappointed. As a member of Farrer & Co's Charity & Community team, Philip's practice is broad but with a clear focus on complex legal issues involving charities and not-for-profits.

Philip advises on a wide range of charity law and related issues. This includes governance and strategic matters, mergers and restructuring, establishment and registration, trading and organisations' relationships with non-charitable subsidiaries, tax, fundraising and regulatory issues.  He has a particular understanding of the charity clients' legal needs and point of view, gained from his ongoing (part-time) secondment as company secretary and in-house legal adviser to a major international disability charity.

Expertise

Charities

Philip works mainly with 'operational' charities working directly with beneficiaries but also regularly advises a range of other types of organisations including grant-making foundations, educational institutions and those with innovative approaches to the delivery of charitable outcomes. Recent highlights include advising an international children's charity on its 'commercial participation' with a global best-selling author and advising on the charity law aspects of a number of bond issues by charities incorporated by royal charter.

Education

Education: Philip regularly advises educational charities on their work and has particular experience advising independent schools and other organisations engaging in strategic projects. This has included a number of projects involving the independent sector's engagement with the maintained sector, particularly through sponsorship of multi-academy trusts.

  • Philip has contributed chapters to two books on charity law: 'Charity Governance' (Jordans, 2014) and 'Charity Law – Global Guide' (Thomson Reuters, 2016, also available on Practical Law).

    He is a member of the Charity Law Association.

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