Bates Wells

Charity and social enterprise.

Deputy managing partner and joint head of charity and social enterprise team, specialising in charity law and acting for a wide range of charities and other not-for-profit organisations; main areas of work are constitutional and governance, collaborative working and mergers, Charity Commission and investigations and inquiries, social finance, commercial ventures, fundraising, internal disputes.

Trained Bates Wells Braithwaite; qualified 1995; partner 2000.

Charity Law Association; trustee Shakespeare Globe Trust; director Shakespeare Globe Trading Limited; director Death Penalty Project Limited; trustee Death Penalty Project Charitable Trust; director Human Dignity Trust.

University College, London (1986 English).

Cycling, skiing, mountaineering.