Professor Charles Dobb is Special Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, where his practice focuses on securities offerings, public company reporting, corporate governance, and public M&A. He represents issuers and financial institutions in registered and registration-exempt offerings of equity and debt securities, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, private placements, and liability management transactions.

Professor Dobb also regularly advises public companies on SEC reporting and disclosure obligations, proxy statements, beneficial ownership reporting, stock exchange compliance, board and committee governance matters, and ESG-related considerations. His practice includes counseling boards of directors and management teams on complex governance and disclosure issues arising in the context of significant corporate events and ongoing public company operations.

Before starting in private practice, Professor Dobb served as a law clerk to Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Professor Dobb received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2017, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an Executive Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. He received his A.B from Vassar College in 2012, graduating with both general and departmental honors.