Charlie is a Partner in the Commercial team, specialising in Competition Law.
With over 17 years' experience, Charlie advises on a wide spectrum of compliance and commercial law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, trade practices, information exchange and investigations into anti-competitive conduct. As well as competition law, Charlie also has a proven track record in assisting clients with UK National Security Investment Act clearances and foreign direct investment approvals worldwide.
Charlie's clients come from a wide range of sectors, including aviation, financial services, food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, retail, wholesaling, and water. Charlie also has experience advising in-house following secondments at Cathay Pacific Airlines (as Global Head of Compliance) and HSBC (as APAC Head of Antitrust).
Charlie is ranked as an "Associate to Watch" in Chambers 2025 and also as a "Leading Associate" in Legal500, where he is described as "top notch". Charlie is commended for "understanding the tone we need and applying the law in a way that is understood by our company" and being "very easy to work with, sensible, pragmatic, knowledgeable and a very decent guy", as well as his ability to "put across the technicalities of the legislation without it bamboozling the individuals hearing it."