Withers LLP

Charities group.

Now occupying a management role but continuing to provide conultancy on charities’ governance and operations, and philanthropy in the domestic and international context. His understanding of the law relating to money laundering and terrorist financing in its application to charities’ operations has been described as ‘unique’.

Trained Stafford Clark & Co (now Stafford Young Jones) 1983-85; assistant solicitor, trusts department, Herbert Smith 1985-95; partner Herbert Smith 1995-2000; partner Withers 2000-09; consultant Withers LLP 2009 to 2013; International Risk and Compliance Director 2013 to date; chair STEP Worldwide Philanthropy Advisors Group; co-author ‘Charity Trustees & Investment Ethics’ (1996); contributor ‘Practical Trust Precedents’ and ‘Practical Will Precedents’ (Sweet & Maxwell) and Tolley’s ‘Charities Manual’; co-author England and Wales chapter ‘Handbuch des Internationalen Stiftungsrechts (Zerb Verlag); co-editor International Charitable Giving (OUP).

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Charity Law Association; City of London Law Society.

Whitgift School, South Croydon; University College London (1982 LLB).

Walking, church, books, history, languages; trustee, The London Community Foundation; trustee, UK Community Foundations.