Hannah Kubie

Practice Areas

Head of the Charity Team, Hannah is an experienced lawyer for charities and social enterprises. She advises on incorporation and registrations, governance issues, operational legal matters and mergers and transfers. Her particular expertise is in commercial drafting (such as contracts and grants) and she acts for a number of publicly funded organisations. She frequently advises on collaborations and partnerships, procurement and trading.

Career

Prior to joining Stone King in 2010, Hannah worked at Linklaters LLP and Capsticks LLP and had a placement in the legal team at Save the Children International.

Her decision to specialise in the charity sector was in part influenced by her secondment at an international children’s charity.

Work Highlights

Recent work includes advising on the following areas:

Several governance reviews for large charities and groups, including assisting with implementing recommendations.

The restructuring of an international group of charities and social enterprises.

Complex charity registrations and advising on specialist charity law areas such as disposals of property, treatment of funds and, as part of our social finance team, on social investments by charities.

Contracting:

Hannah’s legal expertise includes providing commercial advice to social enterprises, charities and socially driven commercial organisations. Recent advice includes:

Preparing a range of model agreements to allow charities which provide services to work collaboratively with other organisations in tendering for public procurement opportunities and delivering under those contracts.

Working as part of the firm’s social finance team advising on the receipt of grants from various sources (and flowing down the requirements of those grants) to enable an innovative funding pilot.

Clients

Her client base includes those working in disability and special educational needs.

Hannah also advises numerous grant makers on their grant terms and related matters.

She also advises a number of social lenders as well as charities on social investments.