Practice Overview
Chris has a broad practice encompassing, primarily, commercial litigation, banking and financial services, excise and taxation, property and trusts.
He is a frequent contributor to LexisNexis PSL, both as author of regular commercial case updates and as a “Panel Expert” for property and taxation issues.
Recent cases of note include advising Duff & Phelps, as joint liquidators of the Connaught Income Series 1 Fund, following the collapse of an unregulated collective investment scheme worth in excess of £100m. The most recent FCA statement can be found here.
In addition, Chris frequently acts for a number of well-known retail and investment banks in diverse contentious disputes ranging from guarantees and factoring through to derivative products and allegations of fraud.