16 OLD BAILEY, LONDON, EC4M 7EG, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7597 6000
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- Fax 020 7597 6543
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- 160 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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Clive Cutbill
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- Work +44 20 7597 6095
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Work Department
Charities group.
Position
Consultant, specialises in advising on charities’ governance and operations, and issues relating to tax-efficient charitable giving, venture philanthropy, social investment and the structuring of transactions involving charities and others to deliver social benefit 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’.
Career
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 date; chair STEP England and Wales anti-money laundering task force; chair STEP England and Wales 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 (2erb Verlag).
Member
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Charity Law Association.
Education
Whitgift School, South Croydon; University College London (1982 LLB).
Leisure
Walking, church, books, history; vice chair, Capital Community Foundation; trustee, Community Foundation Network.
Practice Areas
Charities and not-for-profit
