Charities team in Bristol is seeking to recruit a Charities Senior Associate or Legal Director of 5 or more years’ PQE. The team is known for advising charities and other not-for-profits in the health & social care and education sectors. They have a broad client base which reflects the diverse nature of the charities and not-for-profit sector and includes acting for a number of household names.
You will be expected to handle your own caseload of smaller matters and support the lead partner and wider team on larger projects, encompassing the full range of charity law and governance issues alongside contributing to business development initiatives and supervising junior members of the team.
Work that you can expect to be involved with includes:
• advising charity trustees on their duties and responsibilities;
• advising on charity start-ups and registrations (including the appropriate structure for a new charity);
• advising charities on all types of legal structure, including charitable companies, charitable incorporated organisations, royal charter corporations, statutory corporations, unincorporated associations and charitable trusts as well as community interest companies and other forms of social enterprise;
• advising on constitutional reviews ensuring that charity clients are operating with a modern and appropriate legal structure and governing instrument, including making applications to the Commission for consent to regulated amendments and other issues related to restructuring requiring the Commission’s consent;
• advising on all types of governance issues, including conflicts of interest, disputes and undertaking governance reviews and reviewing and drafting governance policies and procedures;
• advising on strategic issues for charities, including the wide range of commercial issues they face, domestic and international growth and relationships with non-charitable entities;
• advising on transactions including mergers between charities and other types of acquisition and disposal;
• advising on grant agreements and fundraising matters;
• advising on endowments and restricted funds;
• advising on the serious incident reporting regime and drafting appropriate reports to the Charity Commission.
To be considered for this role, you will:
• have excellent client relationship and client handling skills;
• be able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day-to-day issues;
• be able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority;
• have strong technical skills and an ability to understand and work through complex issues;
• be team-orientated and collegiate with experience of and a willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of the team.
Those with either private practice or in-house Charity experience will be considered for this role
