Benefic Lawyers provides strategic and legal advice to individuals and organizations wanting to operate in the benevolent sector outside Canada. Benefic Lawyers has working relationships with charity lawyers around the world.
Benefic Lawyers has globally recognized expertise in the comparative law of charity and regularly advises charities and donors operating around the world on tax and legal issues relating to the international transfer and utilization of charitable funds, as well as on matters of corporate control and structure. Blake Bromley has advised governments in China, Russia, Vietnam, England, Australia, South Africa and Eastern Europeon drafting laws relating to their benevolent sectors. In fact, Lord Phillips of Sudbury refers to his friend Blake as an international 'bumble bee' of the charity world because he ceaselessly travels the globe learning and then cross-pollinating his accumulated knowledge with others.
Benefic Lawyers' international legal services include:
- Advising foreign governments and activists on how to develop the benevolent sector within their national framework
- Assisting Canadian charities to register in international domains
- Registration of charities in Canada for foreign clients
- Addressing regulatory and reporting issues with regards to moving charitable funds internationally
- Advice dealing with terrorism legislation and security issues
- Tax planning and governance issues in international philanthropy
