Qualifications & Experience
• BA Hons, Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University (2000 - 2003)
• LPC, BPP Law School, London (2003 - 2004)
• Trainee Solicitor, Herbert Smith LLP (2004 - 2006)
• Admitted Solicitor 2006
• Solicitor, Private Wealth & Charities Group, Herbert Smith LLP (2006 - 2010), advising on: setting up and administering complex trusts; estate planning; removal and replacement of trustees; the formation and governance of charitable trusts; and contentious trust and charity matters.
• Joined BWB 2010

Type of Work
• General Charity advice
- Charity formation and registration
- Governance advice
- Constitutional reform and structural reorganisation
- Educational institutions

• Trusts
- Establishing charitable trusts and amending trust deeds
- Permanent endowment, restricted funds and releasing permanent endowment
- Trustee powers and duties

• Legacies and Philanthropy
- Legacy fundraising
- Devolution of legacies post merger
- Grant making and bespoke grant agreements
- Private charitable trusts

Pro Bono & Memberships
• Experience of voluntary work in England, India and Israel
• Founding Governor of a local primary school and a trustee of the charity set up to support the school
• Member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners
• Member of the Charity Law Association