Charities
Charities are unique organisations and need specialist legal advice. We have a dedicated charity team with many years of experience encompassing specialist charity law knowledge in the corporate, commercial, employment, property, tax and trusts spheres. We offer a fully comprehensive service both to charity clients and corporate organisations that are looking to set up charitable trusts, fundraising projects, initiatives and sponsorship.Our broad expertise has recently covered;
- formation and funding of charities (either as trusts, corporate bodies or unincorporated associations);
- structural and constitutional issues;
- advising in connection with trading subsidiaries;
- advising on the duties and liabilities of charity trustees;
- all taxation issues relevant to charities including donations and legacy investments;
- acquisitions and mergers;
- joint ventures;
- commercial and intellectual property issues; and
- numerous property transactions.
