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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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Charities - UK-wide

Band 4

What the Team is Known For
Herbert Smith Freehills regularly advises charities, foundations, social enterprises, NGOs and multinational corporate clients in relation to philanthropic and charitable matters. The charities team advises across intellectual property, trusts, real estate, employment, tax and data protection issues for clients. The firm's work frequently involves international charities and cross-border elements.
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Work Highlights

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  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer advised The Earthshot Prize on charity law and financial services regulatory issues around its new Launchpad platform.

Strengths

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  • The team worked in a highly collaborative and responsive manner, seamlessly engaging with our internal team as well as with multiple external stakeholders, including international delivery partners.

    Charities respondentUK

  • They do high quality work for us as a charity.

    Charities respondentUK

  • They have excellent understanding and knowledge and retain historical insight into our work and the reasons for decision making. This has been impressive.

    Charities respondentUK

  • Incredible knowledge and expertise across various teams. Very quick responses and brilliant level of service along with a very strong awareness of our business.

    Charities respondentUK

  • The way the process was explained to us was fantastic. Our options were presented clearly. Communication was excellent.

    Charities respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Matteo Yoon
    Matteo Yoon

    Matteo Yoon

    Matteo Yoon is a senior associate at Herbert Smith Freehills who regularly advises national and international charities, social enterprises, and not-for-profit organisations. He handles a wide variety of charity, corporate and commercial law matters, including grant funding, governance issues, regulatory compliance and charity registration.

    • Matteo has outstanding customer service, a strong memory and insight of legal and commercial matters and is able to bring in experts to support work to a successful conclusion. Excellent approach.

      Charities respondentUK

    • We received excellent support from Matteo.

      Charities respondentUK

    • Matteo is highly responsive with a deep level of understanding about outcomes contracts. It is obvious that Matteo is passionate about his role and ability to contribute for greater impact.

      Charities respondentUK

    • Matteo is just outstanding!

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