People | Charles Leveque

Charles is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Practice and acts for a wide range of clients, particularly in the media, entertainment and sports sectors. He advises on corporate transactions relating to both publicly listed and private companies, including mergers and acquisitions, fundraisings, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and public offerings of securities.

Charles has recently acted for:

• MAMA Group plc on the £46m takeover offer made by HMV Group plc and the unsolicited takeover offer made by SMS Finance S.A.;
  
• The principal selling shareholders on the disposal of Monkey Kingdom Limited to NBC Universal;
  
• Edenville Energy plc on a reverse takeover and its subsequent re-admission to the AIM Market;
  
• United Agents Limited on the implementation of new shareholder and financing arrangements;
  
• The selling shareholders on the disposal of a majority stake in Raymond Gubbay Limited to DEAG Classics AG;
  
• MAMA Group plc on the acquisition of Angel Music Group Limited;
  
• Virgin Holidays on the acquisition of Fast Track Holidays Limited; and
  
• Formosa Films on fundraisings in respect of their feature films Twenty8k and Top Shelf.

As a French-English bilingual, Charles studied Law and French Law at King's College London and the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, qualifying in England, and spent three years working in its Corporate Practice, including one year in the Paris office before joining Harbottle & Lewis in May 2007. Charles is a member of the EIS Association and the Franco-British Lawyers Society.