Corporate Finance and Media Finance

Charles is Head of the Corporate Group at Harbottle & Lewis. He advises on corporate finance transactions (including public and private mergers and acquisitions and fundraisings) shareholder arrangements and IPOs for clients principally operating in the technology, hospitality, leisure, media and entertainment sectors.

He has advised technology services group The Panoply Holdings plc on its IPO on the AIM Market and on multiple subsequent acquisitions, All3Media on its acquisition of NENT Studios UK and has advised Eiffel eCapital on its provision of debt finance to a number of alternative finance platforms. He also frequently advises SMEs on debt and/or equity fundraisings (including using the Enterprise Investment Scheme).

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 (basic)

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))