CMS

Senior Partner

Charles is Senior Partner and Chair of the Board for CMS UK and its international offices. As Senior Partner, Charles focuses on building strong relationships with clients, intermediaries, professional services firms and local regulators across all the firm’s geographic regions, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

As an ambassador for the firm, its clients and its people, Charles champions the importance of wellbeing and promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, creating opportunities for all to ensure a strong sense of belonging.

Prior to his role as Senior Partner, Charles was Co-head of the Global Corporate Practice Group for nine years and he has been a member of the Board since 2010.

For over 25 years Charles has advised utilities, generators, developers, funds and other financial investors on transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors during which time he has worked on some of the highest value and most complex mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector. He has been recognised for many years as one of the leading energy and infrastructure lawyers in the UK.

As a Corporate partner, Charles advised on many multi-billion dollar transactions, from advising on the restructuring of the UK’s gas distribution industry to working on some of the world’s largest renewables projects.

Legal directories such as Legal500 and Chambers have consistently described Charles as a lawyer with strong commercial acumen, a common sense approach, and a focus on practical solutions.

1995 – LLB, King’s College, London 1996 – LPC, College of Law, London