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Juliette de WAELE Associate
Ghita BOURQUOUQUOU Associate
PLAN INTERNATIONAL FRANCE - PROVIDING LEGAL SUPPORT TO CHANGE THE NGO’S STATUS
were contacted to offer our legal expertise to Plan International France, which was considering changing its status to “association reconnue d’utilité publique”, considered as a key stage in its development plan. We conducted a first diagnosis, which led us to the conclusion that such a status was hardly compatible with their modus operandi. We therefore recommended that they change from their current status, an “association loi 1901”, to a “fondation reconnue d’utilité publique”. We then worked on the entire change process, from the legal, tax and governance analysis through to the drafting of their articles of association and internal regulations, which are now in the process
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of being registered with the competent authorities. We mostly work on corporate cases, so this experience was very interesting in that it gave us the opportunity to work on different issues – and to contribute to a good cause. The firm’s pro bono programme encourages us all to work on pro bono cases, on the one hand, by making these cases available to us and, on the other hand, by giving us time credits to work on them properly. We were thus able to work as thoroughly on this case as we do on the corporate cases we handle for “normal” clients.
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Juliette de WAELE and Ghita BOURQUOUQUOU
◗ Perce Neige, for the support of people with mental and intellectual disabilities, and their families; ◗ Further afield, Gide’s Hong Kong office once again organised a collection of useful and educational gifts for disadvantaged children via Box of Hope; ◗ In Brussels, our lawyers took part in the Running for Missing Children Europe event for the second consecutive year.
The law is, by definition, firmly anchored in society and it is our duty, as professional legal practitioners, to commit to pro bono work.
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Antoine LELONG, Partner, member of the Pro Bono Commission
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