Senior Associate/Legal Director - Charities

The role

DAC Beachcroft is seeking a Senior Associate/Legal Director for their Charities practice group in Bristol. This role focuses on providing comprehensive legal advice to charities and not-for-profit organisations, covering governance, regulatory matters, and strategic commercial issues.

What you'll do

• Handle your own caseload
• Support the lead partner on larger projects, encompassing the full range of charity law and governance issues
• Contribute to business development initiatives
• Supervise junior members of the team
• Advising charity trustees on their duties and responsibilities
• Advising on charity start-ups and registrations (including the appropriate structure for a new charity)
• Advise 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
• Supporting other specialists on charity related issues, including where they arise in relation to critical incidents, property disposals, banking, insolvency and employment relationships
• Advising on issues related to non-primary purpose trading and the use of trading subsidiaries and relationships between charities and their subsidiaries
• Assisting with all business development activities and tender preparation

What we're looking for

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