Gowling WLG

Automotive; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Professional Liability

PSL Principal Associate

Christopher Richards helps clients to manage risk and resolve disputes in a commercial and cost-effective manner. Christopher works with a variety of clients on commercial and professional negligence disputes, both at a pre-action phase and during litigation.

Christopher also advises clients on alternative dispute resolution and pro-active risk management and avoidance.

Highlight

Securing a favourable settlement for a consortium of manufacturers in a complex civil fraud claim involving parallel civil and criminal proceedings. At a slightly different financial level, but no less rewarding, working on a pro bono basis with charity clients to secure payments from difficult suppliers, enabling them to further their charitable work.

Clients

A broad range including professional service firms, manufacturers and retailers.

Experience

Providing pro-active advice to professional services firms and international networks on regulatory compliance and change, membership documents, as well as on life-threatening contractual and negligence claims

Operating an advice 'hotline' for an accounting practice to provide quick turnaround on wide-ranging ad hoc legal queries

Representing a major electronics manufacturer in a termination dispute with one of its European distributors

Providing on the ground service and gaining deeper understanding of clients businesses through secondments to the in-house legal teams of two top five UK accounting practices and two automotive manufacturers

English