Charles practices complex business, real estate and securities litigation. He has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and representing officers, directors, and corporations in SEC enforcement actions. He also has litigation experience in the areas of fiduciary duty, energy related disputes, derivative transactions, trade secrets, professional liability and class actions. Charles is admitted to practice in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth Circuits, and all U.S. District Courts in Texas.

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Representative Experience
•Served as lead plaintiff’s counsel for limited partners against a general partner for breach of fiduciary duty. The general partner put its interest ahead of the limited partners in negotiating the restructuring of the mortgages of an office building where the major tenant had defaulted. Trial resulted in a $60 million verdict, which was settled after notice to all limited partners and approval by the court.
•Handled numerous business valuation cases which resulted in jury trials and/or arbitrations. This included representing minority shareholders for minority shareholder oppression and valuation of interest due to mergers, and representing partnerships and individual partners in disputes over valuation, severance, and breaches of fiduciary duty.
•Served as lead plaintiff’s counsel for a not-for-profit health care system in a suit against the largest money management company in the U.S. for breach of fiduciary duty related to investment in an institutional money markets fund. After extensive discovery and before trial, a successful confidential settlement for the plaintiff was reached.
•Served as lead plaintiff’s counsel for the parents of a young man who died when the brakes malfunctioned on his vehicle. Their son had obtained a complete brake job from a company representing it was a brake specialist. The suit alleged that the defendant’s brake job had been improperly conducted. The defense asserted there was no brake malfunction and that the accident was caused by excessive speed. Immediately prior to trial a confidential settlement was reached.