England - South East • Private client
Moore Barlow
Based in Guildford, Moore Barlow advises domestic and international clients on a breadth of commercial, governance and structural matters. The practice has also recently been engaged in gaining charitable status for independent schools, pro-life, and sex/gender identity charities. Gordon Reid leads the team and often handles reputation management and transactional work for senior charity leaders and trustees. Joanna Lada-Walicki helms employment and pastoral mandates, while Helen Harvie provides clients with trustee training. George Shepherd is particularly knowledgeable of faith, health and youth charities.
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Testimonials
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- ‘All-round coverage and availability with practical realistic support and advice.’
- ‘There has always been prompt attention to all the matters and a thoroughly professional approach.’
- ‘It has been enormously helpful to have a legal team on which we can rely with so much confidence both for advice and execution.’
- ‘The charities team work hard to get to know their clients and to give a personal service that recognises our own specific needs. We are confident that they will give us accurate, timely and helpful advice in times of crisis as well as more routine needs.’
- ‘Gordon Reid is an experienced charity practitioner who has the confidence and knowledge to give grounded, realistic practical advice.’
- ‘Gordon Reid immediately understood what we were trying to achieve and provided excellent guidance on so many aspects of the project.’
- ‘Joanna Lada-Walicki offers excellent advice in a sympathetic manner - understanding that managing legal issues within a charity can be complicated. She not only advises on the law but also supports us in how we involve trustees, manage stakeholders, and handle the issues more broadly.’
Key clients
- Young Minds Trust
- National Rifle Association
- Reliance Bank
- The Boys’ Brigade
- Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
- Lloyds Bank plc
- Shooting Star Children’s Hospices
- Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance
- Camila Batmanghelidjh
- Compassion UK
- CWR / Waverley Abbey Trust
- Woking and Sam Beare Hospices
- Co-Mission Churches Trust
- Richmond Parish Lands Charity
- Hospital of the Blessed Trinity
- Falkland Islands Trust
- Croydon Almshouse Charity
- The Poland Trust
- East to West Trust
- Himalayan Trust UK
- The Richmond Charities
- Arun Church
- NatWest Bank plc
Work highlights
- Assisted educational trusts with gaining charitable status for independent schools.
- Advised founder and former CEO of Kids Company Camila Batmanghelidjh on her judicial review following the collapse of Kids Company.
- Assisted a London almshouse charity on their restructuring to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Gordon Reid