Regulatory

Charles is an experienced regulatory crime solicitor advising corporations and their directors on investigations, prosecutions and other enforcement actions in relation to the offences which can be committed by companies, including bribery and corruption, environmental, waste and nuisance, corporate manslaughter, health and safety, trading standards, animal welfare, pricing and promotions, food labelling, food hygiene and food safety, weights and measures, Coroner's inquests, product recall and product safety etc.

Charles has over 20 years’ experience in pretty much all sectors but in particular - retail, food and drink, hospitality and leisure, manufacturing, rail, construction, property and facilities management, automotive, government and defence, mining, transport, warehousing and logistics, and healthcare and acts for individuals as well as many well-known global and high street businesses.

Charles is acutely aware of reputational risk/brand protection and is used to having to act and advise in high profile matters. Charles is ranked locally and nationally in various legal directories over many years, and is a regular speaker at seminars and events, a provider of bespoke training for clients and umbrella bodies, a writer of articles on various subjects within his expertise and a reviewing editor of leading textbook Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice.

Charles trained at Pinsent and Co London and Birmingham and qualified in 1994.

June 2016 to date - Partner, Shoosmiths LLP May 2005 to June 2016 - Partner, DLA Piper UK LLP July 2003 to May 2005 – Senior Associate, DLA Piper UK LLP September 1997 to July 2003 – Senior Associate, Pinsent Curtis Biddle September 1994 to September 1997 – Assistant Solicitor, Pinsent Curtis September 1992 to September 1994 – Trainee Solicitor, Pinsent and Co

The Law Society Birmingham Law Society International Bar Association Middlesex County Cricket Club British Association of Shooting and Conservation The Java Far East Prisoners of War Club Helmdon” and “The Intangibles Cricket Clubs

Uppingham School, Uppingham, Rutland

University of Nottingham and Nottingham Law School: BA (hons) Law with History and Social Anthropology (1991) and Law Society Finals (1992)