Partner, Litigation & Arbitration

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.