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Joe Whitfield
Bates Wells, London
- Phone020 7551 7904
- Email[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)