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 and industrial companies, and securities industry professionals.

• Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $27 billion merger with Keurig Green Mountain
• UBM plc in the $841 million sale of PR Newswire
• 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
• Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Bai Beverages 
• UBM plc in its $972 million acquisition of Advanstar
• Sandvik in its $740 million acquisition of Varel International
• UBM  plc in its purchase of Business Journals, Inc.
• Pearson it its $650 million acquisition of Embanet Companies
• Reed Elsevier in its sale of Variety to Penske Media
• Pearson in its acquisition of Global Education & Technology Group China
• Reed Elsevier in its $530 million acquisition of Accuity
• UBM plc in its $247 million acquisition of Canon Communications
• Interactive Data Corporation in its $3.4 billion acquisition by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus
• Toyota in its agreement with Tesla to jointly develop electric powered vehicles
• The Economist Group in its acquisitions of Congressional Quarterly, Capital Advantage and CFO Publishing
• Pearson plc in its $950 million acquisition of Harcourt Assessments
• Pearson plc in its purchase from and the subsequent sale of interest in Nook Media to Barnes & Noble
• Pearson plc in its acquisition of Wall Street English
• Dr Pepper/Snapple in its acquisition of several independent bottlers and distributors
• Kraft Food in the sale of its Balance Bar business