James Sinclair Taylor > Russell-Cooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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James Sinclair Taylor
Work Department
Charity and social business.
Advice on governance, risk management, strategy particularly arranging and delivering mergers and collaboration.Position
James is a consultant in the charity and social business team.
He works with a wide variety of charities, not for profits, local authorities and government departments. He focuses on governance and structure issues including reviews of governance, company, group and collaborative structures, Royal Charters, International Federations and other bodies. He has done substantial amounts of work for membership organisations which face particular challenges.
Much of his work is involved with mergers including assisting clients find appropriate merger partners and negotiating the merger or collaborative working.
Increasingly he has supported clients facing issues with regulators and in particular the Charity Commission. He advises on strategies to manage a range of risk, solvency and growth issues.
Career
Trained Vivash Hunt; qualified 1976; worked at North Kensington Law Centre then helped found Hounslow Law Centre; founded Sinclair Taylor & Martin 1981 – later merged with Russell-Cooke to become the charity team. Publications: ‘Russell-Cooke Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook’; ‘The Company Secretaries Handbook for Voluntary Sector Companies’; Principal of Whitecliff Management Consultancy; Trustee of grant-making, educational, information, care and medical charities. Currently Protector of NESTA (formerly the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). Chair of Reside Housing Association; Vice Chair of ShelterBox and Swanage & Purbeck Development Trust; Trustee of Islington Play Association
Memberships
- Charity Law Association
- Housing Association Chairs Group
- Author of the Russell-Cooke Legal Handbook 2010, the Directory of Social Change
- Author of the Company Handbook and Registers for Voluntary Organizations
- Chair of ShelterBox, an international aid charity, and chairs the supported living area of a housing association
Education
Grenville College; University of Leicester (BA Social Sciences).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
(Hall of Fame)The team at Russell-Cooke LLP is praised as ‘approachable, highly intelligent, efficient, and coordinated‘ and ‘work is done quickly and is well, informed by deep industry insight with a knack for finding resolution on even the most nuanced legal issue’. Led by Andrew Studd, the group is adept at advising on the establishment of new charities and on philanthropy issues, and continues to see an increase in work on regulatory interventions by the Charity Commission; it is also skilled at advising charities that have been created by Acts of Parliament and by Royal Charter. James Sinclair Taylor is a long-standing adviser to charities, social businesses and other not-for profits, while Chris Rowse continues to work with various high-profile clients. Pippa Garland advises charities from a wide range of sectors, and Carla Whalen was recently promoted to the partnership. At senior associate level, Gareth Roy is another name to note.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Charities and not-for-profit London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Court of protection
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Immigration
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Social housing: tenant
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport