Chris Staples

Corporate

Chris is a sector leader for our Energy & Utilities practice and co-head of our Global Commodities practice. He has extensive experience advising clients across multiple sectors including the energy, natural resources and chemicals industries in relation to M&A, joint ventures and sector specific regulatory issues.  His practice focuses primarily on leading a wide range of energy and natural resources transactions and matters.  In addition to M&A and joint ventures, he also advises on commodity sale and purchase transactions, repos and prepays, energy and commodity market regulatory and the allocation and management of environmental and climate change risks including advising on associated regulatory enforcement matters.  He is a market leader in advising on economic and fiscal instruments for climate and environmental protection.

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University (1995 BA Hons in Natural Sciences); Nottingham Law School (1997 Post Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course).