Charles is a senior investment banker with over 30 years’ experience in international corporate finance. During his time, he has been involved with some of the most complex transactions of the period: Argyll’s £2.5 billion hostile bid for Distillers against Guinness (then largest UK take-over bid), WPP’s hostile US take-over of J. Walter Thompson, creating the £483 million European venture capital fund for Electra Investment Trust (then the largest European p... (login for more professional bio)