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Lawrence Simanowitz
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Work Department
Charity and social enterprise.
Position
Specialist in advising UK and international charities, not-for-profits and social enterprises including their establishment, regulation (including regulatory investigations), campaigning, governance, mergers and incorporations, fundraising and financing and commercial agreements. Recently advised ActionAid on its international network of charities, several major UK clients on their funding agreements with public authorities, established the Elders Foundation as a UK charity and advised on its international structure and key strategic and legal issues. Specialist in data protection and information law, intellectual property and IT – advising clients on rebranding, licensing and assigning copyright and trade mark rights, including recent rebrand of major international aid and development charity and advising leading national disability charity on dispute over ownership of its database; also advised a household name environment charity in compliance issues.
Career
Parliamentary researcher, Greville Janner MP 1986-88; television researcher 1988-91; producer and director television documentaries (BBC and C4) 1991-96; trained as solicitor Lewis Silkin; qualified 2000; solicitor Bates Wells & Braithwaite 2000-06; partner 2006 to date; contributor to ‘Jordan’s Charities Administration Service’; ‘Cultural Giving’; ‘Charities, Trading and the Law’; ‘Business Law: a guide for entrepreneurs’; ‘Charities: the New Law 2006’; and ‘Data Protection for voluntary organisations’.
Languages
French.
Member
The Law Society; Charity Law Association. Board memberships: Fundraising Standards Board; The Elders Foundation; 38 degrees trust. Chair: The Urdang Academy of Dance.
Education
Sylvan High School; John Ruskin High School; St Peter’s College, Oxford (1986 2(1) politics, philosophy and economics); College of Law (1997 CPE; 1998 LPC).
Practice Areas
Charities and not-for-profit; Information technology; Intellectual property
