Emma Flower
Senior associate
Emma is a senior associate in the charities team.
Her practice involves advising charities on their governance and operational issues. She is described as ‘very impressive’ and ‘attentive, proactive and all round a great associate’.
Recent work includes advising charities and other not-for-profit organisations on registration, mergers and collaborations, the commercial aspects of transactions (including public sector contracts), constitutional issues and fundraising law. She specialises in advising education providers including independent schools, academies, Higher Education and Further Education establishments. She also acts for philanthropists, investors and sponsors of education-related ventures.
Emma is described as ‘very impressive’ and ‘attentive, proactive and all round a great associate’ by Chambers and is also recommended in Legal 500 for her ‘practical advice’. She was listed in the top 25 advisors under 35 by Charity Finance Magazine.
Track record
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Advising an education provider on the sale of three independent schools and the acquisition of two independent schools, including preparing all transaction documentation and carrying out due diligence.
Governance review of a large national charity with an income of over £600 million.
Carrying out the incorporation of a not-for-profit unincorporated association, including the transfer of staff, assets, property and a large membership.
England and Wales, 2009
‘Teacher Assessed Grades: A Q&A Session’; Teaching Times, 9 April 2021, author
‘Short Thoughts: teacher assessed UK exam grades’; Withers Insight, 22 March 2021, author
‘The Independent Education Provision in England (Prohibition on Participation in Management) Regulations 2014’, Withers Insight, 1 September 2014, author
Affiliate of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners
Education Law Association
Charity Law Association
The Law Society
Me in a minute
I count myself fortunate to serve some of the most exciting clients in the world - whose aims and accomplishments inspire me every day
Education
Languages
- English