Bates Wells

Charity & Social Enterprise; Social Finance; Impact Economy.

Luke is a Partner in the Charity and Social Enterprise team, advising on the full range of activities carried out by charities and social enterprises as well as co-leading the firm’s work on social finance and in the wider ‘impact economy’.

His work involves advising charities, not for profits, social entrepreneurs and B Corps on structuring and formation, charity law and governance, commercial arrangements, restructuring, mergers and regulatory challenges. For example, he recently advised a leading think tank in relation to a high-profile regulatory review by the Charity Commission.

Partner, Bates Wells, 2013

Secondments to the Social Investment Team, Cabinet Office, 2011-13

Admitted as a solicitor, Bates Wells, 2007

Trainee, White & Case, 2005

Charity Law Association and European Social Enterprise Law Association.

Practitioner in Residence at the Marshall Institute, London School of Economics

Co-founder and Emeritus Director of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers

Member of the founding team of B Lab UK

Co-author of English law requirements for B Corps

Co-founder of the Better Business Act campaign

Former member of the Advisory Council of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law

University of Nottingham and University of Texas, LLB with American Law, 2003

Clifford Chance New York, Scholarship Placement, 2002

Enjoys tennis, running, time with family – and reading!