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Charles Davant

Williams & Connolly LLP

Charles Davies

Charles Davies is a partner within the Dispute Resolution department in the Isle of Man. He joined Appleby in October 2007 and became a partner in 2010. He specialises in complex corporate and commercial disputes. Since joining the firm, Charles has advised and acted for clients in a variety of commercial, corporate and trust disputes. Clients have included regulatory and governmental bodies, insurers and city firms of solicitors. Prior to joining the firm, Charles practised from 1996 to 2007 as a barrister in a commercial set of chambers in London (Stone Chambers), specialising in all aspects of commercial and shipping litigation, including arbitration.

Appleby

Charles Destrée

Lawyer, partner

Lexence

Charles Douglas

Partner

Bowmans

Charles Duggan

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Charles Dumont De Chassart

DLA Piper

Charles E Hodges II

Partner

Jones Day

Charles Edouard Renault

Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Charles Edwards

Partner in the Personal Injury department. Charles is an experienced, collaborative practitioner with more than 25 years’ experience in the field of personal injury who thrives on achieving the best possible outcomes for his clients. He is listed in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, which highlights lawyers who have received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence and are considered to be at the pinnacle of the legal profession. Charles specialises in the highest-value and most complex value personal injury claims, with a particular interest in claimants who have sustained either spinal cord or brain injury. He has experience in dealing with a variety of types of claims, covering road traffic accidents, accidents at work and in accidents public places. Over the past 20 years of his career at Stewarts, Charles has settled claims for clients totalling in excess of £200m. These include high-level spinal cord injury cases, brain injury cases involving minimally aware clients, high-earning City workers, and claims with an international element.

Stewarts Law LLP

Charles Enderby Smith

Charlie is a partner at Carter-Ruck. He regularly advises on international law, commercial and media disputes. He maintains a leading practice in international sanctions, spanning international administrative and judicial challenges before various tribunals including the authorities and courts of the EU, the UK, the US and the UN. Charlie maintains a pioneering sanctions practice, with his cases often testing new rules and legislation, and establishing important principles of law. He is highlighted as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500, where he is also referred to as a “future superstar”. As well as maintaining a strong public international law practice (most notably through his work on international sanctions) Charlie regularly advises on contractual, banking, company law, harassment, libel, privacy and wider media disputes (both pre- and post-publication); more often than not in an international and multi-jurisdictional context. His client base includes high-profile, celebrity, corporate and high and ultra-high net worth individuals. Charlie’s views are often sought by media outlets as an authority on sanctions, and he has written widely on this topic and others. Charlie’s qualities include great attention to detail, strategic and creative thinking and a highly sympathetic approach to clients and their specific concerns.

Carter-Ruck

Charles Felgate

Charles supervises the Planning and Environmental team, which has a significant contentious and non-contentious practice acting for both the private and public sector. The team advise on planning processes and decision making, appeals, judicial reviews, statutory challenges, enforcement and certificate applications and appeals. They also have expertise in compulsory purchase and associated compensation matters, including certificates of appropriate alternative development and references to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber). Charles advised Calderdale Borough Council in relation to the land assembly for a number of strategic transport and regeneration projects. He represented the Welsh Government in relation to the M4 Corridor around Newport proposals and in relation to marine planning policy matters and represented Powys County Council at the Mid Wales Conjoined Windfarm Inquiry. Charles advises all three of the Welsh National Park Authorities and he also has a significant section 106 practice, acting for both the private and public sectors. He recently completed a minerals planning appeal on land at Tir Pentwys, Torfaen, a planning appeal in relation to a mixed use scheme at Castlewood Business Park in Nottinghamshire and defended an application for a declaration that an historic planning permission could be implemented at Aberdyfi.

Geldards LLP

Charles Filleux Pommerol

Charles Filleux-Pommerol is a partner in the Tax department of the Paris office of Paul Hastings. He advises mostly on tax aspects of private equity and M&A transactions. He has developed a very strong and extensive expertise in the tax and legal issues raised by private equity transactions and management packages. He also regularly assists clients in tax audits and litigation.

Paul Hastings LLP

Charles Filleux-Pommerol

Charles Filleux-Pommerol is a partner in the Tax department of the Paris office of Paul Hastings. He advises mostly on tax aspects of private equity and M&A transactions. He has developed a very strong and extensive expertise in the tax and legal issues raised by private equity transactions and management packages. He also regularly assists clients in tax audits and litigation.

Paul Hastings LLP

Charles Fisher

Principal Solicitor - Food & Beverage

KHQ Lawyers

Charles Frank

Charles is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer who advises businesses, shareholders, directors and investors. His specialisms include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, reorganisations and joint ventures. Charles also regularly advises on non-transactional matters, such as shareholder/partnership agreements, business succession and a wide range of commercial agreements. Charles’ clients range from start-ups to listed companies and he often advises clients who are based outside the UK.

Keystone Law

Charles Frost

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Charles Fursdon

Charles advises private, commercial and institutional clients on a wide range of contentious matters. He advises both claimants and defendants on all stages of the litigation process from pre-action up to trial. He has experience assisting on multi-million pound cases in the High Court as well as smaller matters in the County Court.

Farrer & Co

Charles Gavoty

Partner

Jones Day

Charles Gerada

Principal

Clintons

Charles Goldblatt

Associate

Conyers

Charles Gordon

Charles Gordon is a mediator and arbitrator, recognised by the Legal 500 for his mediation expertise. Charles handles a broad range of disputes including insurance and reinsurance, energy, professional negligence, property, shareholder and joint venture disputes . He is appointed by a wide range of law firms in London, the UK regions and internationally. He writes on disputes resolution topics and lectures on the subject. Charles is also involved in mediation training. He was a law firm partner for over 30 years and led the International Insurance practice at DLA Piper until his retirement in 2014. He still acts a consultant to clients in the insurance and reinsurance sectors. Charles was also, until October 2016, the litigation director of The RBoS Action Group advising on the £5 billion shareholder litigation against the Royal Bank of Scotland. Charles is also a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University College in London. He is admitted to the Bar of the Bahamas. He is also a mentor with the Princes Trust. Having advised on leading cases at all levels of the English court, Charles was consistently recognised, during his years in private practice, in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 guides to the legal profession. He is noted for combining a warm sense of humour with robust probing of parties’ positions, Charles is described as a “natural mediator” whose style is built on meticulous preparation and a thorough understanding of clients’ commercial positions. Charles’ approach to mediation is to engage with the parties on the issues, to drill down into the details of the dispute, in order to establish and help influence the key sticking points which have prevented prior resolution.

IPOS Mediation

Charles Gothard

Charles specialises in advising international families and entrepreneurs as well as the family offices, trust companies and other institutions helping them. His work often relates to their estate planning, structures (whether trusts, foundations or other vehicles), philanthropy and personal affairs. This frequently involves complex international tax and estate planning, co-ordinating advice from advisers in different jurisdictions and often in situations with little or no UK connection. He also regularly advises foreign residents on the most tax efficient way to structure UK investments or a move to the UK. Charles also has significant experience of contentious UK and international trust and probate work – resolving disputes between trustees or executors and beneficiaries, acting for either side. Charles heads the firm’s family office group and is country partner for Switzerland so has overall responsibility for our relationships in Switzerland. Charles lectures regularly in the UK and abroad and has published articles in many of the leading professional publications. He is the joint editor of The World Trust Survey – an overview of the trust laws of 34 jurisdictions published in 2010 by Oxford University Press and the joint author of a chapter on “Protectors” in Tolley’s Administration of Trusts. Charles is a member of ACTAPS (Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists). Charles is ranked as a Tier One adviser in the UK and Global editions of the independent Chambers guide and as a leading individual in the UK Legal 500 guide. He has been recognised in the eprivateclient 2021 50 Most Influential list and is recommended in the 2020 Spear’s 500 guide.

Macfarlanes LLP

Charles Goumaz

Charles Goumaz is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution Group in Geneva. Specializing in white-collar and cybercrime defense as well as commercial litigation, Charles provides legal and strategic representation to high-profile individuals, corporate clients, and financial institutions in a wide range of matters involving sensitive issues and multi-jurisdictional aspects. His practice also includes crisis and reputation management, international mutual legal assistance and enforcement proceedings, asset tracing and recovery, as well as internal investigations. Charles is a Certified Specialist SBA (Swiss Bar Association) in Criminal Law. Experience: Defense of banks, financial intermediaries, commodities trading companies and senior executives in criminal and mutual legal assistance proceedings, involving inter alia fraud, mismanagement, bribery, money laundering, forgery and war crime allegations. Defense of senior executives and financial institutions in enforcement and administrative criminal proceedings. Representation of clients in complex shareholders disputes involving litigation proceedings and settlements negotiation. Defense of cybercrime victims, including data breach notification processes as well as asset tracing and recovery.

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Charles Green

Head of Global Private Client

Farani Taylor Solicitors