Charles E. Engros, Jr.

Charlie is recognized by Chambers and The Legal 500 for his service to clients, and is noted by the 2019 Acritas Star Survey as “very calm and thoughtful.” Contributors applaud him for understanding what is important to their companies and for his economical and clear communications.

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, natural resources, 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