This incredibly well-established team has a loyal client base and is viewed as one of the bastions of the sector.

Chambers & Partners, 2010

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.