Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Dispute Resolution

Chris is a dispute resolution partner and solicitor advocate based in London.

Chris has significant experience of acting for clients with commercial disputes across various sectors and geographies, but has a particular focus on disputes work involving banks and private capital clients. His experience includes advising on complex contractual disputes, class actions, shareholder and joint venture disputes, partnership and LLP disputes, economic torts, fraud and conspiracy, asset tracing, professional negligence, insolvency disputes, employment-related disputes and privacy and defamation issues.

Chris is Immediate Past President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (the LSLA), which has over 3500 members and helps to shape civil justice reform and promote best practice in litigation.

Chris is listed as a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500 UK and is described as 'an extremely impressive litigator'. He has also been described in previous editions of Legal 500 as a 'creative problem solver' and having a ‘formidable reputation’.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class) from the University of Bristol (1999) and obtained Distinctions for the CPE and LPC from the University of Exeter (2001) and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (2002) respectively.

He was admitted as a solicitor in September 2004, has been a solicitor advocate since October 2007 and became a partner in 2014.