Charles E. Engros, Jr.

Charlie often writes and speaks about financings and foreign investment in the United States, as well as trends in the M&A legal arena and the media industry. While he focuses to a large extent on serving media, technology, and information services industry clients, he also represents consumer products and industrial companies, and securities industry professionals.

• Represented Pearson in the sale of its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House, a global consumer book publishing company, to Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA for approximately $675 million
• Represented Ciner Group subsidiary, Imperial Natural Resources, on a $400 million equity joint venture with Şişecam Group, to develop a substantial new Soda Ash facility in the Green River Basin in Wyoming
• Represented Pearson in the $250 million sale of its US K12 courseware business to Nexus Capital Management
• Represented Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $27 billion merger with Keurig Green Mountain
• Represented UBM plc in the $841 million sale of PR Newswire
• Represented Pearson plc in the formation of a joint venture between its Penguin subsidiary and Bertelsmann's Random House to form the world's largest consumer publisher
• Represented Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Bai Beverages 
• Represented UBM plc in its $972 million acquisition of Advanstar
• Represented Sandvik in its $740 million acquisition of Varel International
• Represented UBM  plc in its purchase of Business Journals, Inc.
• Represented Pearson it its $650 million acquisition of Embanet Companies
• Represented Reed Elsevier in its sale of Variety to Penske Media
• Represented Pearson in its acquisition of Global Education & Technology Group China
• Represented Reed Elsevier in its $530 million acquisition of Accuity
• Represented UBM plc in its $247 million acquisition of Canon Communications
• Represented Interactive Data Corporation in its $3.4 billion acquisition by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus
• Represented Toyota in its agreement with Tesla to jointly develop electric powered vehicles
• Represented The Economist Group in its acquisitions of Congressional Quarterly, Capital Advantage and CFO Publishing
• Represented Pearson plc in its $950 million acquisition of Harcourt Assessments
• Represented Pearson plc in its purchase from and the subsequent sale of interest in Nook Media to Barnes & Noble
• Represented Pearson plc in its acquisition of Wall Street English
• Represented Dr Pepper/Snapple in its acquisition of several independent bottlers and distributors
• Represented Kraft Food in the sale of its Balance Bar business