Ciara is a partner in the education sector at Stone King and has a particular specialism advising academies, GFEs, and sixth form colleges. Ciara heads up the commercial practice for our education clients, and has a particular specialism navigating clients through procurements. She is independently rated in the main legal directories – Legal 500 and Chambers.
A solicitor with over 15 years’ experience supporting boards on commercial and procurement matters and in the training and skills sector nationwide, Ciara and the team at SK combine a passion for the sector with high quality practical, legal and commercial advice.
The education team at Stone King is a multi-disciplinary team comprising lawyers and consultants experienced in areas such as procurement, governance, charity law, contractual and commercial structural change, intervention property law, employment law, human resource, information law, health & safety and safeguarding.
Stone King is the only law firm in the country to be top ranked by the independent directories for both its education and charity sector expertise and not confined solely to London. With offices in Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester Cambridge, Leeds and London and over 250 people, Stone King is uniquely focussed on these two sectors which make up around three quarters of the firm’s work.