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Colin is a consultant and former partner who applies his experience with numerous businesses and charitable organisations across a wide range of the firm’s clients.

Colin provides specialist corporate and strategic advice on buying and selling businesses, investments in businesses, joint ventures and commercial agreements. Alongside that work he advises corporate and individual foundations, arts charities and other charities on commercial and regulatory issues.  He has been involved with some of the firm’s best-known clients and projects.

Many of the clients Colin advises are in the hospitality or media industries. He has a particular interested in seeing startup businesses progress to exit and beyond. In his work for charities he has a particular focus on those applying commercial principles to achieve their objectives, as well as helping a range of charities deal with all aspects of governance.

Colin trained at Harbottle & Lewis before qualifying in 1981 and becoming a partner in 1984. He was managing partner of the firm for eight years to 31 July 2000. He is a member of the Charity Law Association, a director of Comic Relief Limited and Board Adviser to Virgin Unite.

TESTIMONIALS

What people say

Colin Howes is fantastic to work with. His responses to emails are punctual, considered and he draws on a huge amount of institutional knowledge of the charity and associated entities as well as up to date charity law.”

The Legal 500

Colin Howes is my absolute first port of call for M&A. He’s the person I make contact with as soon as there’s an inkling of a deal. He’s massively experienced, super-smart, very flexible, and has a genuine understanding of the ‘art’ as well as the ‘science’ of the deal.’

The Legal 500

They work extremely hard. Their sector expertise is second to none. Ed Lane and Colin Howes have both got encyclopaedic memories and experience.’

The Legal 500