Helen Kidd > Lindsays > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Lindsays Offices
CALEDONIAN EXCHANGE
19A CANNING STREET
EDINBURGH
EH3 8HE
United Kingdom
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Helen Kidd
Work Department
Charities and the Third Sector
Position
Helen is a Partner and heads up our Charities and Third Sector team in Edinburgh.
Helen’s experience includes setting up, merging, winding up charities; advising on governance, charity tax, and trading activities; advising grant giving charities; trustee training and dealing with a wide range of regulatory matters such as OSCR, HMRC, the Care Inspectorate and the Financial Conduct Authority related issues. In addition to fundraising, donations, trusts and endowments, using her private client experience, Helen advises on lifetime philanthropy and legacies/bequests.
As well as advising charities Helen has also been a trustee herself, with experience on the board of a national community-based youth work organisation and also as a governor of an independent school.
Memberships
Helen is a member of the Charity Law Association and an affiliate member of the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
(Next Generation Partners)Lindsays acts for charities, faith-based organisations, higher education institutions and trusts on corporate and trustee governance and regulatory matters, in addition to structural changes. Accredited charity law specialist Helen Kidd leads the team, handling financial authority-related issues and advising high-net-worth individuals on lifetime philanthropy mandates. With considerable experience in employment law, Kate Wyatt and Ben Doherty further bolster the team’s strength by providing strategic advice to charity clients in employment tribunal claims. John Thom advises a variety of third sector organisations, executors, and beneficiaries.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Scotland > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Charities and not-for-profit Scotland > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Medical negligence: pursuer
- Insurance > Personal injury: pursuer
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate