Company
Position
Managing partner
Index
Power List
Location
London
Advice type
Asset allocation
M&A
Private equity advisory
Asset Class
Alternative assets
Client type
Business Leaders
Business owners
UHNW
Sector Focus
Legal Advisory Services
Luke Powell
Spear’s Review
Luke Powell took on the mantle of managing partner at Macfarlanes in 2022. Unusually for the managing partner of a major firm, he remains committed to earning fees and leading client relationships while also heading up the firm, and Macfarlanes has taken on a chief operating officer, Katherine Milliken, to work in a focused way on business services.
Powell joined Macfarlanes in 2004, was named partner in 2007 and became co-head of M&A in 2018, advising on all aspects of M&A transactions, with a particular focus on financial services, asset management and private equity, namely buyouts and secondaries.
The combination of managing partner and COO, the firm says, reflects the flexible nature of their business and its willingness to adapt to different, successful ways of working.
Top 100 2025, Power List