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Bates Wells Offices
Bates Wells
10 QUEEN STREET PLACE
LONDON
EC4R 1BE
England
10 QUEEN STREET PLACE
LONDON
EC4R 1BE
England
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Joe Whitfield
020 7551 7904 [email protected]
Work Department
Charity & Social Enterprise
Position
Joe leads the Bates Wells’ Development Finance practice, specialising in impact investment and financing transactions with a focus on the Global South and emerging markets. With more than 25 years’ experience leading on a wide range of complex cross border transactions across a number of sectors, Joe provides proactive, pragmatic, commercial and solutions-oriented advice for investing and operating in some of the most challenging jurisdictions.
Career
- Admitted as a solicitor, 1987
- Gouldens (now Jones Day), 1985
- Biddle & Co (now Pinsent Masons), 1993
- General Counsel and Corporation Secretary at CDC Group PLC (now British International Investment), 1995
- Co-founder and director at Africa Legal (now part of Norton Rose Fullbright), 2003
- Partner at Steptoe & Johnson, 2007
- Partner at Michelmores, 2009
- *General Counsel at Phatsia, 2013-2022
- *General Counsel at Agdevco, 2013-2015
- Joined Bates Wells, 2023
*Fulfilled in conjunction with his partnership at Michelmores
Education
- School of Oriental & African Studies, London University – BA (Hons) Law (with Social Anthropology)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Public sector > Electoral
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Public sector > Education: schools
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Industry focus > TMT
- Employment > Employers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Property finance