Charles is a Senior Consultant in the London Corporate group.
Charles’ areas of practice include cross-border and domestic acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses, corporate and non-corporate joint ventures, company restructuring, securities issues and other fund raising exercises for public and private companies and advising on private equity transactions.
He also advises on commercial and project agreements especially in the power sector and for procurement, outsourcing and facilities management contracts. Charles has worked on biomass, on-shore and offshore wind, solar, waste to energy, fossil-fuel and carbon capture and storage power project developments and acquisitions in the UK and Europe and on the development, purchase and sale of LNG and oil product terminals in Europe, Central Asia and the Far East.
- Advising Blue Energy in connection with the disposal of a portfolio of windfarms to funds managed by Octopus Investments for an undisclosed sum.
- Advising Blue Energy and Santander on the sale of Hall Farm Wind Farm to John Laing.
- Advising Blue Energy on its acquisition of HgCapital’s 177 MW wind portfolio, which includes the developer RidgeWind.
Education
- 1974 – 1977 Trinity Hall, Cambridge – BA Hons Law
- 1980 Trinity Hall, Cambridge – MA