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Milbank Offices
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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William Charles
Position
Partner, Litigation & Arbitration
Career
William Charles specialises in complex commercial dispute resolution and regulatory (and internal) investigations, particularly in the financial services sector.
Will’s investigations practice focuses on advising firms and individuals (from junior traders up to, and including, COO and CEO-level executives), in UK and cross-border internal and regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings, and resulting litigation. Such investigations concern a range of issues, including alleged insider dealing, market manipulation, competition law violations, mis-selling and breaches of market conduct rules, including in respect of oversight, monitoring, treatment of confidential information, personal device usage, systems and controls issues, and senior management responsibilities.
His disputes practice has a strong focus on banking and finance litigation, as well as civil fraud, outsourcing, technology and energy disputes, in High Court litigation, arbitration, expert determination and other forms of ADR.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
Milbank
draws on its established strength in the contentious space to represent key players from the global financial services community in their interactions with the regulators. The firm’s transatlantic presence ensures that it is particularly well positioned to handle mandates with ramifications in both the UK and US. Julian Stait
heads up the litigation and arbitration practice, with William Charles regularly leading on regulatory investigations work.
London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
(Next Generation Partners)Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Financial services: contentious London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium