Charles is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer who advises businesses, shareholders, directors and investors. His specialisms include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, reorganisations and joint ventures. Charles also regularly advises on non-transactional matters, such as shareholder/partnership agreements, business succession and a wide range of commercial agreements.
Charles’ clients range from start-ups to listed companies and he often advises clients who are based outside the UK.
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Investments
- Private equity and venture capital
- Management buy-outs/-ins
- Joint ventures
- Business reorganisations
- Shareholder agreements
- Partnerships
- Business succession
- Corporate governance
- Commercial agreements
Experience
- Advised senior management on its participation in a £30 million investment by Horizon Capital in Ascent Software and TechHuddle. Also advised the Ascent Software owners on a sale of their shares into the ongoing trading group.
- Member of team advising management on its acquisition of the Principles, Warehouse, Racing Green and Hawkshead businesses, as well as their subsequent disposal.
- Advised a listed rights ownership business on its acquisition of several household names in the television and book sectors.
- Advised TheNueCo (a US-based food supplement business) on several institutional and HNW fundraisings.
- Advised the owners of The Net Crowd on its sale to Daisy Group Plc.
- Advised the owners of Layer 3 Advanced Business Solutions on its sale to Daisy Group Plc.
- Advised the owner of a market-leading healthcare software business on its sale to a private equity-backed management team.
- Advised the buyer and investors on an acquisition of the Altitude London events business in Millbank Tower.
- Advised a high-growth IT business on its fully outsourced IT services agreement with a leading UK university.
- Advised a market-leading luxury brands recruitment business on a private equity fundraising.
- Advised a regulated business-to-business SME lender on an equity/debt fundraising.
Career
Charles qualified as a solicitor in 2002. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2019, he worked at the following firms:
- Parker Bullen
- Thomas Eggar
- Charles Russell Speechlys
- Pinsent Masons