Advising clients on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, Charlotte May regularly handles capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate governance, securities disclosure, and compliance issues.

Charlotte represents a wide range of corporate clients with particular experience in the financial services and life sciences industries. She assists clients with respect to various transactional matters, including primary and secondary registered offerings, private placements, exchange offers, tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, FinTech partnerships and acquisitions and similar matters. She also advises various public companies in the preparation of SEC periodic reports, proxy statements, beneficial ownership reports, public company disclosure and on other securities law and stock exchange compliance matters. Charlotte also counsels public companies on a variety of corporate governance matters, including board and committee composition, FinTech governance and organization, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) matters, internal and disclosure controls, insider trading and similar matters. Charlotte also serves as a co-chair of the firm’s Fintech Initiative.

Charlotte’s recent pro bono work includes advising World Central Kitchen in connection with various contracts required to provide meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises, advising Humane Rescue Alliance in its acquisition of St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center and advising Kitty of Angels, Inc. and Medical Student Orthopedic Society, Inc. in its formation as a nonprofit and 501(c)(3) company. She is also a board member for Kitty of Angels, Inc. In addition to her work at Covington, Charlotte:

• Acts as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Women in M&A Subcommittee, which focuses on the participation, promotion, and retention of women in the M&A field.
• Frequently speaks and publishes on topics in M&A for the American Bar Association and is a producer for the ABA Business Law section’s webinars for M&A.
• Served as Chair of the American Bar Association M&A Market Trends Subcommittee 2024 Public Target Deal Points Study and as Attorney Working Group Leader on the previous study. The study is widely recognized as the gold standard for market metrics of key negotiated deal points in public target M&A deals.
• Served as a Study Leader for the American Bar Association’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Deal Points Study on Carveout Transactions. The study is one of its kind for market metrics of key negotiated deal points in carveout transactions.

Charlotte was a judicial extern for Hon. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California prior to joining the firm.