Charles Douglas

Practice Areas

Charles Douglas is the co-head of Bowmans' Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group and a member of the firm’s partnership board, with over 20 years specialising in both public and private M&A as well as equity capital markets work.

Charles has represented many multi-national and South African domestic companies, including in the listed space, and he also regularly advises private equity houses. His specialist interest areas include social impact investment and social entrepreneurship, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, and the corporate aspects of South Africa’s renewable energy program.

In addition to South African work, he regularly works on transactions across the rest of the continent and has experience working in various other African jurisdictions, including Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Charles has 18 months’ work experience in Sydney, Australia and admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.