Jo Loake
Jo has worked in the charity and social housing sector all her legal career, Jo is an expert legal voice and a highly experienced lawyer in a wide range of business-critical governance, regulatory and constitutional areas.
Jo advises on governance, policy and constitutional issues, identifying and mitigating risk, and advising on strategic projects such as stock transfers and group structures. She also has expertise in commercial contracts and partnering arrangements and complex negotiations, including with local authorities, third party solicitors and funders’ solicitors on contract terms, warranties, service level agreements and nominations, as well as fundraising.
Jo also advises on a wide range of mergers, cost-sharing vehicles, JVs and other partnering arrangements, including JVs between charitable and private organisations, and also matters ranging from codes of conduct and board member service agreements to restructures, creating subsidiary organisations and intra-group arrangements.
Jo is at the cutting edge of developments in the regulatory environment, regularly speaking on changes affecting the sector.
Jo advises on project matters, as well as day-to-day aspects and risk management and decision making processes.
Jo contributed to the legal text Handbook of Co-operative and Community Benefit Society Law.