Special Counsel
Glenys Hodges
Expertise.
Glenys has extensive experience as a senior corporate and commercial lawyer. Having worked at one of Australia’s leading law firms for over 25 years, she has been a key legal advisor to some of Australia’s largest companies and government departments, advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions in the resources sector.
She has also practised extensively for over 25 years advising charities and not-for-profit organisations, including:
- establishing ancillary funds, charitable trusts and environmental, affordable housing, educational, cultural, benevolent and other charitable and tax concession entities;
- drafting and amending constitutions and trust deeds;
- obtaining charity registrations and endorsements for tax exemptions and concessions and deductible gift recipient status under a range of categories;
- advising about duties, governance and compliance;
- drafting and negotiating funding agreements, collaboration agreements, project agreements and services agreements;
- drafting board charters and compliance policies; and
- advising about issues relating to testamentary bequests and estate disputes.
She is known to be a commercial, pragmatic and trusted legal advisor to her clients and has acted for some charitable organisations for 15 years or more. Her depth of knowledge and experience, especially her well-developed drafting, research, reporting and organisational skills and her understanding and appreciation of the particular concerns and motivations of charities and not-for-profit organisations, are a valuable resource for her clients.
Qualifications
Memberships
- Professional Users Group established by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.
Industry Expertise
- School council director and is a committee member of Innocents Relief, a charity and public benevolent institution.
- She has completed the Company Directors Course of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Results
“We highly recommend NFP Lawyers for any organisation seeking expert legal assistance in the non-profit and charity sectors! We are incredibly grateful for the outstanding support provided by the team at NFP Lawyers in transitioning teachSTEM from a program under our research organisation into a fully-fledged charity. Their expertise, attention to detail, and timely guidance were invaluable throughout the entire process. They helped us navigate the complexities of charity registration, ensuring we met all legal requirements while remaining focused on our mission to bring STEM education to life for all students. Thanks to their support, teachSTEM is now positioned to make a lasting impact in the education sector, and we sincerely could not have achieved it without them.”
Dr Bridie Schultz | Director of Scientific Research, teachSTEM