Sector

Charity Law Solicitors

We are still available and booking appointments over telephone and video conference

Our team specialises in non-contentious matters and has experience of working with schools, academies, colleges and other organisations across a range of commercial, corporate and constitutional matters.

Our experience involves drafting, advising on and negotiating contracts; identifying, protecting
and exploiting intellectual property; and advising on charity law and governance.

Recent Experience Includes:

Advising on constitutional documents (including amendments);
Charity Law advice including trustee conflicts;
Preparing, negotiating and advising on contracts for outsourced services including catering and cleaning;
Advising on purchasing contracts from existing service providers and the mechanisms for doing so;
Production of contracts for services to end users;
Advising on the intellectual property implications of specific third party contracts;
Creation of a consortium purchasing arrangement between schools;
Creation and organisation of breakfast club and after school club entities;
Intra-group contracts;
Co-operative and shared resources arrangements with local authorities;
Advising on construction contracts and required ancillary documentation including deeds of novation, professional appointment deeds, collateral warranties and performance bonds.

Data Protection & IP

Implications of data protection legislation and adoption of appropriate policies and procedures and dealing with data protection, freedom of information and other information requests;
Assisting with responses to information access requests and data breaches;
Intellectual property licensing and development agreements;
Advice in relation to GDPR; and
Data protection advice on a project for provision of software applications to schools using aggregated SIMS data;
Data Protection Officer Support services;
Outsourced Data Protection Officer services.

For further information please contact the Head of our Education Group - Jonathan Holden

LASBM Approved Partner