Our team has provided legal support to a range of charities. Highlights include:
- Advising on the complex merger of two large grant-making charities; one incorporated under Royal Charter and the other by Act of Parliament. The two parties formed a charity with funds of over £80m, including negotiations with Charity Commission, Privy Council and many stakeholders
- Advising St John’s Hospital, the second largest landowner in Bath, in respect of their property portfolio, including asset management, portfolios and leases
- Managing all legal aspects of the leases for Dorothy House’s portfolio of charity shops, located across the UK
- Advising independent schools registered as charities on a range of issues, from exploiting their assets to navigating public benefit tests
- Acting for several of the region’s major land-owning charities, assisting them with all property management issues, ranging from acquisitions and sales, assignments, lease terminations and renewals, through to possession actions, rent and dilapidations disputes, or boundary, rights of way, and nuisance actions
- Advising and assisting individuals, groups of individuals, institutions and existing charities in the creation, registration and administration of a new charity