Biography:
Gavin McEwan is a Partner and Head of Charities at Turcan Connell working principally in the fields of charity law, succession, trusts and tax. He is the Head of Turcan Connell's Charities Legal Team, is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in charity law and chairs the Law Society of Scotland's panel on specialist accreditation in charity law. He is a member of the Charity Law Reform Committee of the Law Society of Scotland and the Charity Law Association Executive Committee and Standing Tax Committee.
Gavin's work in the area of charity law includes the establishment and reorganisation of charities, from Royal Charter bodies and major public trusts to smaller active and grant-making charities. He also advises a number of national institutions, arts bodies and historic houses.
Gavin is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde and trained at W & J Burness WS and Turcan Connell. He qualified as a solicitor in 1998 and became a Partner at Turcan Connell in April 2010. He has a broad interest in opera and the arts. Gavin is General Editor of the Scottish Private Client Law Review and author of the Scottish chapter of Tolley's Charities Manual, the Scottish chapter of the Global Guide to Charity Law, and a co-author of W Green's Practical Guide to Charity Law in Scotland.
Gavin is a trustee of a number of charities, including the Lawscot Foundation, the Edinburgh International Festival Endowment Fund and Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh. He also sits as Legal Assessor to the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He is a member of the board of directors of The Dean Cemetery Trust Limited.