Charities & not-for-profit

Bristows has built a leading reputation in the field of charity law through our work advising clients - both incorporated and unincorporated - on their charitable status, activities and governance. We provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with complementary advice on a broad range of disciplines and we are also extremely well placed to advise their non-charitable trading subsidiaries on all their corporate affairs.                                                 
   
                                                             
More than 100 years' experience of working with the charity and not-for-profit sector has seen us advise on the constitutional affairs and the charitable and commercial activities of many of the UK's leading professional institutions and societies and other charities, many of them incorporated by Royal Charter.


Recently we have advised on: 

• Charity mergers, acquisitions and disposals and partnerships between charities and not-for-profit bodies
   
• Structuring of trading activities through subsidiaries and

  taxation advice, including an HMRC enquiry
   
• Governance reviews and professional disciplinary and human rights issues
   
• Technology transfer transactions
   
• Real estate transactions, including the acquisition and disposal of HQ buildings
   
• Management of a branch network
   
• Ownership and publication of British Standards
   
• Dealings with the Charity Commission, the Privy Council and OSCR