Meet our team / Catherine Gibbons
Catherine Gibbons
Senior associate
Senior associate in the governance, funding and corporate team
Catherine is a senior associate supporting charities of all structures and sizes in their governance and compliance with charity law and regulation.
A specialist in charity governance with over 10 years’ post-qualification experience, Catherine regularly advises on a range of issues concerning charities. These include the interpretation and amendment of governing documents, trustee duties and responsibilities, trading subsidiaries, governance reviews, mergers, group restructures and engaging with the Charity Commission on regulatory matters. Catherine is on the Charity Commission’s list of approved practitioners to be Interim Managers of charities and has been appointed to act in that capacity on a number of occasions.
Catherine also brings first-hand experience to bear in the advice she provides as an experienced trustee of both large and small charities.
My specialisms
- Charity law
- Governance
- Churches and faith-based charities
- Incorporations and mergers
- Charitable property trusts
My insights
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