Luke Whitmore

Luke Whitmore is a Partner at Dentons in London, practicing in the Derivatives and structured products space, specializing in Banking and Finance Law. He advises on a broad range of derivatives and structured products, including interest rate and currency swaps and options, credit default swaps, total return swaps, equity derivatives, stock lending, repurchase transactions, synthetic CDOs, regulatory capital‑driven structures, and synthetic securitisations.

Luke has extensive experience in the prime brokerage and futures market, acting for both broker‑dealers and end‑user clients. In recent years, he has taken a lead role advising investment banks providing hedging to African sovereigns. He has also led numerous large‑scale regulatory‑driven implementation projects for a number of major investment banks.

He holds an LL.B from University College London (2002).

Luke has been recognised in The Legal 500, with commentators describing him as having "an incredible depth of understanding and always goes the extra mile" and being "masterful in his understanding of complex structures."