Neil Burton

Neil is a corporate, charity and commercial lawyer and Notary Public. Neil heads up Mills & Reeve’s charity sector group and advises major charities and universities on a range of corporate and charity issues. He has also advised on over 250 Lloyd’s of London limited liability corporate transactions.   Neil also manages the firm’s work in the Middle East.

Neil manages the overall client relationships with some of our significant international charity clients with wide ranging charitable objects, challenges and legal issues.   Neil is also retained by boards of trustees of a number of major charities to provide horizon scanning on major issues that will impact on their strategy.  This enables Neil to provide strategic, rounded and pragmatic advice.

A senior Head of Legal described Neil as  “an absolute gem and was absolutely first class in the way he handled the transaction".   Legal 500 ranks Neil as a leading individual and notes he "rates very highly and inspires confidence with his mixture of technical knowledge and pragmatism’ and Chambers notes Neil is “excellent”.