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Glynne Stanfield
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E-mail glynnestanfield@eversheds.com
Tel 0845 497 3806
International +44 1223 44 3806
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Glynne is a partner in the education group. He read law at Jesus College, Oxford. He heads Eversheds Governance and External Relations practice and Eversheds International Education practice.
Governance: examples of work include: being the lead partner on the merger between the University of Manchester and UMIST; the creation of the University of Cumbria and the incorporations of the University of Chichester and Roehampton University.
He advised on the setting up of the QAA and OIA. He acts for the Russell Group and is its company secretary.
International: transactions include: advising the Washington Post Group on education institute acquisitions in the UK (including Holborn College), advising University of Technology Sydney on its joint venture in the UK with the University of Essex, advising Newcastle University on its arrangements with INTO, advising Nottingham Trent University and the University of Sheffield on their joint venture with Kaplan Inc., and advised the Open University on its Indian joint venture with NIIT (an Indian quoted company).
He has worked extensively in the Gulf and Asia including setting up a branch campus in China for Glasgow Caledonian University, advising Newcastle University on its medical campus in Malaysia and marine engineering campus in Singapore, acting for City University on its joint venture in Dubai and UCL on its Adelaide campus.
He recently acted for UCL on its biomedical joint venture with Yale.
In further education he has been involved in the mergers of Merthyr Tydfil College, Reading College and Bicton College. He has advised on a number of academies sponsored by FECs such as Barnfield. He led on the takeover of the Crescent Consortium by the sector, the transfer of REME's training function to a Kent College and the merger to create LSIS. He acted for Peterborough Regional College and College of West Anglia on their HE joint ventures with Anglia Ruskin University. He represented the FECs involved in the set up of University College Suffolk. He also acts for LLUK.
He advised Apollo Global on its takeover of BPP. In addition he has a number of private sector education clients including the US organisations Laureate and Bridgepoint Education. He also advises a number of US universities on their EU operations including Harvard, Georgetown and Vanderbilt.
He is the author of the UUK guide to new structures in higher education (working with their Longer Term Strategy Group), a policy document for the 157 Group on preparing colleges for the future and is managing editor of the UUK guide to UK HEIs operating internationally. He is a regular speaker at events and conferences. He has been asked by the Universities Secretary, David Willetts, to provide input on education matters from a legal non party political perspective.
He has advised a number of education institutions in sponsoring academies and other schools.
He is a member of the US higher education organisation NACUA and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Corporate Finance Faculty.
He is recognised as a leading lawyer in the UK legal directories "Legal 500" and Chambers.
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