Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Corporate & Commercial

Charlie is the firm’s co-managing partner and head of the corporate practice.

Outside of his management roles, Charlie advises on a wide range of corporate transactions from private and public mergers and acquisitions to investments, joint ventures, fundraisings and shareholder arrangements involving private equity, venture capital, family office and strategic parties. He has advised on a number of IPOs on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

His clients comprise investors, funds and companies of all sizes, from startups to international corporations in a wide range of industries; he is particularly experienced in advising clients in the technology, media, entertainment, retail and leisure sectors. He is also passionate about advising entrepreneurs, accompanying them from the inception of their ideas to exit.

Trained, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Qualified 2004;  Corporate Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London 2004-06; Corporate Associate, Paris 2006-07;  Associate, Harbottle & Lewis London 2007-09; Senior Associate 2009-12; Partner 2012.

French (fluent), Spanish, Italian

EIS Association;  Franco-British Lawyers’ Association;  British Screen Forum.

Berkhamsted School;  Kings College London and Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000 LLB Law and French Law (2(1)) and Maitrise en droit Français (equivalent 2(1))