Charles accepts instructions across all areas of commercial law. He has experience in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, Technology & Construction Court and in offshore jurisdictions. His recent cases include:

• Municipio de Mariana v BHP Group – acting for the Part 20 defendant (Vale S.A.) in a group action concerning the collapse of a Brazilian dam, in which over 600,000 claimants are seeking damages of £36 billion (led by Simon Salzedo KC, Vernon Flynn KC and Richard Eschwege KC, instructed by White & Case)
• Arcadia Petroleum v Bosworth & Ors – Commercial Court proceedings concerning losses caused by a 10-year freezing injunction, following the dismissal of a US$325 million fraud claim relating to oil trading in West Africa (led by Richard Eschwege KC, instructed by Quinn Emanuel)
• Illiquidx v Altana Wealth [2025] EWHC 299 (Ch) – acted for the successful claimant in a 10-day Chancery Division trial alleging breach of contract, misuse of confidential information and infringement of trade secrets by a hedge fund; the defendants’ appeal to the Court of Appeal is listed for summer 2026 (led by Andrew Green KC, instructed by RPC and Quinn Emanuel)
• Chowgule v Shirke – acting for the claimants in a hard-fought application for a freezing injunction relating to an alleged fraudulent scheme in the shipping industry (led by Simon Salzedo KC, instructed by Milbank)
• Verlox International Ltd v Antoshin – jurisdiction challenge; defending subsequent applications for contempt (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• Stokoe Partnership Solicitors v Patrick Grayson & Ors – acting for the claimant in a case alleging breach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy, involving allegations of unlawful hacking (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Prismall v Google UK Ltd & Deepmind Technologies Ltd – representative proceedings under CPR Part 19 for alleged misuse of private information (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• St James Holdings Ltd v Staveley – a contractual dispute relating to the sale of Newcastle United Football Club (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Confidential matter – advising a high net-worth individual in relation to a potential claim against a private bank for breach of contract, negligence, and breach of statutory duty (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Confidential matter – advising a former employee of a renewable energy company in relation to a dispute regarding share entitlements (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)

Charles accepts instructions across all areas of competition law. His recent cases include:

• Consumers' Association v Qualcomm - acting for the defendant in collective proceedings alleging an abuse of dominance (led by Daniel Jowell KC and Nicholas Saunders KC, instructed by Norton Rose Fulbright)
• Justin Gutmann v Stagecoach & Ors - the first standalone collective proceedings and the first to concern an alleged abuse of dominance (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Others v Lundbeck Limited & Others - follow-on damages claim in respect of alleged collusion between pharmaceutical companies (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• BMW Emissions litigation - proposed group litigation against BMW in connection with alleged 'defeat devices' as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Pharmacosmos UK Limited and another v Vifor Pharma UK Limited and others – proceedings alleging an abuse of dominance in the pharmaceuticals sector (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Advising on the prospects of proposed opt-out collective proceedings in respect of an alleged breach of the Chapter I prohibition in the technology sector (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Advising a defendant company in the energy sector in respect of a proposed claim against it alleging excessive pricing (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Advising a defendant utilities company in relation to the potential certification of opt-out collective proceedings against it alleging an abuse of dominance (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)

Charles accepts instructions across all areas of public law. His recent experience includes:

• Attorney General for the Falkland Islands v Teslyn Siobhan Barkman – proceedings concerning the rights of dual nationals to vote and to hold office under the constitution of the Falkland Islands (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Airwave Solutions Limited & Others v Competition and Markets Authority – an application for review of a CMA decision under section 179 of the Enterprise Act 2002, raising issues concerning A1P1 property rights (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)

• An LCIA arbitration concerning a dispute in the investment management industry (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• A challenge, under sections 67, 68 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, to an award concerned with a reinsurance dispute (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• An HKIAC arbitration regarding patent portfolio licensing (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)

Education

• 2021-2022: Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction, second in year), City Law School
• 2020-2021: Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City Law School
• 2015-2019: BA Literae Humaniores (Congratulatory Double First), New College, University of Oxford

Scholarships and prizes

• Lord Scarman Scholarship, City Law School, 2022
• ICLR Busfield Prize for Legal Research and Opinion Writing, City Law School, 2022
• Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn, 2021
• City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2021
• Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn, 2020
• Gibbs Prize for the best performance in philosophy, University of Oxford, 2019
• Academic Scholarship, New College, University of Oxford, 2017