Higher Education

We understand that legal compliance is the baseline for good practice, but we regard ourselves as contributing much more than this to the higher education sector. Primarily we will act as members of your team helping to formulate your strategy going forward – our attitude and approach is defined by this focus.

We see ourselves as entering into a partnership with our clients and believe that the best hedge against legal liability lies in improved risk assessment and preventative risk management. Our team will be available to you on an ongoing basis to provide advice, training and, more importantly, strategic direction.

Our Higher Education team consists of individuals from all the disciplines of law a university may require and can draw on wider knowledge of the fields of commercial law to help you realise your goals.

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28th January 2013

HMRC in a spin over academics’ shares

HMRC has announced that it is going to review the treatment of academics' shares in university spin-out vehicles set up to exploit innovative research work. The government hopes that a review in this area will stimulate activity by making these structures more attractive to those responsible for the pioneering work on which they're built.