Joachim has 17 years experience of public sector contracts and projects work.

He has advised:

· the Department of Health and universities on major healthcare education arrangements (covering funding streams of £350 million);

· the Environment Agency on custody and investment management agreements (contract value £1.6 billion);

· the Ministry of Defence on the large scale procurement of consumables and other equipment (value in excess of £1 billion) and

· QinetiQ (formerly the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) on major estates rationalisation projects (project values so far of £100 million).

In January 2004, he completed the complex contractual arrangements for the sale by QinetiQ of a 300 acre decommissioned defence site.

Typically instructed by contract awarding or commissioning authorities, he acts as legal project manager and lead negotiator and takes overall responsibility for the delivery of complex contractual documentation.

Joachim joined Osborne Clarke as a partner in 1994 from Bond Pearce in Plymouth, where he built up his public sector practice. He read economics and law at Wolfson College, Cambridge, trained with Stephenson Harwood and qualified as a solicitor in 1987.