Wedlake Bell LLP

Projects and infrastructure.

Christopher represents corporate, entrepreneurial and UHNW clients from around the world. He helps them to create, grow and protect their business and private wealth.

His work covers the full legal spectrum and is both advisory and transactional. It frequently involves the provision of general counsel and family office-style services.

Christopher has a long-standing involvement with the ports sector in the UK and internationally. He is a non-executive director of The Bristol Port Company and a founder member of UK Port Advisers. He is the Consulting Editor to Halsbury’s Laws of England on Ports & Harbours and he was a member of the British Government’s former UKTI Ports Advisory Group.

He has particular experience of corporate governance, gained from external board appointments and his trusteeships of several significant charitable and private trusts. He is a member of the Greenwich Hospital Advisory Board (a Crown foundation and the Royal Navy’s oldest charity) and was previously a trustee of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and the Tall Ships Youth Trust. Christopher is a Freeman of the City of London.

Christopher joined Wedlake Bell in 2014. Previously he was the managing partner of Tite & Lewis, a UK law firm established in association with PwC and subsequently Ernst & Young. Tite & Lewis merged with Lawrence Graham in 2004, where Christopher was a member of the Management Board and led the Corporate group and subsequently the Projects practice. Before establishing Tite & Lewis, Christopher was a partner in Stephenson Harwood, where he was a member of that firm’s Management Board and specialised in cross-border corporate transactions. Current directorships: Christopher has direct external board, and board committee, experience. Currently he is a member of the Greenwich Hospital Advisory Board (a Crown foundation and the Royal Navy’s oldest charity) and holds trusteeships of the Fleet Air Arm Museum (part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy) and the Tall Ships Youth Trust. He is a Freeman of the City of London. Consulting Editor on ports and harbours to ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England’.