Colin Howes

Colin is a consultant and former partner who applies his experience with numerous businesses and charitable organisations across a wide range of the firm’s clients. He provides specialist corporate and strategic advice on buying and selling businesses, investments in businesses, joint ventures and commercial agreements. Alongside that work he advises corporate and individual foundations, arts charities and other charities on commercial and regulatory issues. He has been involved with some of the firm’s best-known clients and projects. Many of the clients Colin advises are in the hospitality or media industries. He has a particular interested in seeing startup businesses progress to exit and beyond. In his work for charities he has a particular focus on those applying commercial principles to achieve their objectives, as well as helping a range of charities deal with all aspects of governance. · Harbottle & Lewis LLP

EnglandCorporate / M&A, CommercialFrench

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Colin Howes is a consultant and former partner at Harbottle & Lewis LLP who provides corporate and strategic advice on buying and selling businesses, investments, joint ventures and commercial agreements, and advises corporate and individual foundations, arts charities and other charities on commercial and regulatory issues. He advises many clients in the hospitality and media industries, supports startups through exit, and is a founding trustee of Comic Relief and a Board Adviser to Virgin Unite.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ACommercialCharitiesVenture CapitalCorporate Governance

Office

England

Harbottle & Lewis LLP · Colin is a consultant and former partner who applies his experience with numerous businesses and charitable organisations across a wide range of the firm’s clients. He provides specialist corporate and strategic advice on buying and selling businesses, investments in businesses, joint ventures and commercial agreements. Alongside that work he advises corporate and individual foundations, arts charities and other charities on commercial and regulatory issues. He has been involved with some of the firm’s best-known clients and projects. Many of the clients Colin advises are in the hospitality or media industries. He has a particular interested in seeing startup businesses progress to exit and beyond. In his work for charities he has a particular focus on those applying commercial principles to achieve their objectives, as well as helping a range of charities deal with all aspects of governance.

England

Expertise

HospitalityMediaStartups and exitsFoundations and philanthropic advisoryArts and cultural organisationsCharity governance and regulation

Education

Ipswich School
Oriel College, Oxford (MA English, 1978)

Admissions

Qualified 1981

Languages

French