Head of charities group, Farrer & Co from 2001
Anne-Marie Piper is head of the charities group at Farrer & Co law firm, and specialises in charity law. She acts for sponsors of new charities, directors, trustees and officers of existing charities and other not-for-profit bodies and individuals and companies wishing to make charitable gifts or do business with charities.
She joined Farrer & Co in 2001, and is founder, former secretary and former chair of the Charity Law Association.
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The Bribery Act could have implications for the charity sector when entertaining suppliers and partners. Anne-Marie Piper offers her thoughts.
Anne-Marie Piper completes her overview on the subject of charity mergers In the last issue I began this overview of charity mergers. I explained the duties of charity trustees in relation to mergers and then examined the various steps in the merger process including the exploratory discussions and preliminary checks, the “in-principle” decision to merge and the process known as due diligence and at some of the issues that it can throw up including staff, pensions, VAT and material contracts.
Fresh from completing the merger of Help the Aged and Age Concern, Anne-Marie Piper takes an overview of charity mergers in the ?rst of a two-part article. Recent research undertaken for the Charity Commission on the impact of the current economic downturn1 indicated that 3 per cent of charities were considering a merger (although the figure rose to 6 per cent for both large charities (income between £100,000 and £1m) and the very largest charities (income over £1m)).
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