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James Whitmee - Partner

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Qualifications
  • BA (Hons) in French (University of London)
  • Diploma in Advanced French Studies (Université de Lille)
  • Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - MRICS

Career
  • Emerging Markets Consultants - Founder
  • Cushman & Wakefield - Partner

Experience
  • Real estate acquisition/disposition
  • Relocation analysis/market entry
  • Real estate portfolio restructuring
  • Real estate ownership/financing
  • Financial modelling
  • Feasibility and risk studies
  • Real estate valuation
  • Programme management

Projects
  1. Short and medium term strategy
    2,000 sq m initial office leasehold acquisition to cope with headcount growth in Tunis, Tunisia. Medium term strategy for land acquisition and development of a campus within one hour of Tunis for shared services. Up to 20 hectares and 20,000 sq m of construction.
  2. Security driven requirements for new embassies
    Market entry reports and relocations for Governments in Benin (Cotonou), Senegal (Dakar), Equatorial Guinea (Malabo), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Cameroon (Yaoundé), Mali (Bamako), Algeria (Algiers) and Morocco (Rabat)
  3. Market capacity review
    Assessment of housing, office, warehousing, schooling, leisure and health capacity of several cities on the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. Scenarios modelled assumed 50-1,000 new personnel - short, medium and long term strategic advisory.
  4. Sales
    Sale of properties in Nepal (Kathmandu), Rwanda (Kigali), Morocco (Casablanca), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) and Mali (Bamako).
  5. Market entry - leasing
    Multiple across the Middle East and Africa for telecoms companies including Oman (Muscat), Iran (Tehran), Libya (Tripoli), Algeria (Algiers), Senegal (Dakar), Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan), Nigeria (Lagos), Cameroon (Yaoundé), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), and Angola (Luanda).
  6. Valuation
    Multiple across theworld including Ecuador (Quito), Colombia (Bogota), Nigeria (Abuja), Sierra Leone (Freetown), Sri Lanka (Colombo)and Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar).