Pannone's cross departmental Charities team provides advice and assistance to a wide range of charities and other third sector (not for profit) clients.
Solicitors from across our practice groups bring together their specialist skills plus experience on charity matters.
Our familiarity with the legal and regulatory requirements and constraints on charities is combined with a clear, commercial and practical approach. This ensures value for money advice which is appropriate to the needs of each particular charity.
Our experts guide charity clients through all eventualities from initial advice and formation right through to disposal and closedown where appropriate. We advise and assist on all matters including commercial contracts (including funding, development, collaboration and outsourcing arrangements) employment and HR, property and land, regulatory matters (including the Charity Commission) mergers, acquisitions, disposals and amalgamations and we regularly provide workshops and other training sessions including on governance and trustee issues.
Clients include:
- local and national charities
- schools including academies and academy conversions
- housing associations
- care home providers
- sports and leisure trusts
Our Charities team has experience of advising upon:
- formation
- incorporation of existing charities
- advice on charitable purposes and the public benefit test
- structural advice including trading subsidiaries
- governance and probity
- trustees' powers, duties and responsibilities
- conflicts of interest
- dealing with charity land and permanent endowment
- Charity Commission and other regulators
- exempt charities (including academies)
- Charity Commission schemes and orders
- mergers, acquisitions, disposals and amalgamations
- commercial agreements
- HR and employment law advice
- company secretarial services
Charities solicitors
To arrange a discussion with a charities solicitor click here or call us on 0800 840 4929.
