About

Charles Anderson has been senior legal counsel at Quantum Global, a private equity firm specialising in emerging and frontier markets, since February 2017, after a decade in Russia as a senior legal counsel for Rusal and Renaissance Group. He has also spent time at major Swiss bank UBS and Merrill Lynch, and in private practice at Clifford Chance and Ashurst. Previously recognised for his time at Rusal in the 2016 GC Powerlist, Anderson has made a major impact in his new role in a short time. He has led the legal structuring of investment solutions for clients including corporates and sovereigns alike including the development of structures to provide clients with stability of returns over long durations and the establishment of investment structure in Sub-Saharan Africa to penetrate pension fund management and infrastructure development. Anderson has led legal and commercial aspects for the sale of a stake in a Kenyan cement business – a highly remunerative transaction for Quantum Global providing 20% IRR and supported the acquisition of strategic minority stake in junior gold miner with assets in Senegal and Ivory Coast (US$42m). He was responsible for all legal transactions in relation to this investment and supported all aspects relating to capital raising, preparations for IPO, shareholder relationships and external communications. In his role he has implemented a focus on the compliance and risk elements of transactions which historically were undertaken by the group, as well as greater attention to key structural elements to ensure that they meet standards of best practice. He highlights that, ‘as sustainability becomes an increasingly talked about concept in the world of corporate culture, so also do I believe that it is essential for in-house lawyers not to compromise on their views and opinions and to observe ethical standards in the discharge of their duties as a means of having a sustainable legal career. This can be extremely difficult to do in certain contexts and I never underestimate the problems a lawyer can create for him or herself if not being seen to step into line with the prevailing management view. However as in-house lawyers we also have to take a long term view of our careers and the story that we tell to explain our career background should be a clear and uncompromised one’.