GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Africa-wide
Johannesburg-based Charles Wheeler serves as General Counsel of Absa Bank, having joined the group’s executive committee in 2013.
Wheeler is a veteran of South Africa’s corporate legal world and joined the leading financial services group with an already well-established reputation from his time as a Director and Group Executive at Standard Bank and MTN Group respectively. Wheeler additionally worked in private practice as a consultant at one of the country’s top corporate law firms, Webber Wentzel.
Legal insiders are quick to highlight him as a tremendously well-regarded and long-standing figure in the country’s legal market, describing him as a “very experienced lawyer, pragmatically minded and thorough,” as well as noting that he “carries a lot of gravitas.”