Bio

Charles Douglas clients see him as their trusted partner. They rely on him to deliver focused solutions and support them through the evolution and cycles of their businesses. As a result, he has worked with many of his clients for decades. Charles is renowned for coming up with creative solutions to highly complex matters – perhaps this should not be a surprise as, in his spare time, he is an aspiring artist. He focuses on the ‘purpose’ of the deal and achieving the big picture, while using his legal expertise to delve into the detail to ensure his team deal with individual tasks in a commercially thoughtful way. As a partner in the firm’s M&A group, specialising in both public and private M&A and ECM work, and a as a member of the firm’s partnership board and remuneration committee, Charles is accustomed to managing large diverse teams that deliver results. A trusted client has described Charles as “a rare talent who manages to seamlessly balance the commercial aspects with the legal requirements in order to almost always finds a way to accomplish what we are hoping for. I would feel lost trying to operate… without his judgment and input… he manages to convert chaos…into a highly successful transaction.”