Ogier

Banking and Finance; Aviation and Marine; Restructuring and Insolvency

Partner

Christopher advises financial institutions, alternative lenders, investment funds and corporate clients on a broad range of multi-jurisdictional transactions. As the firm's Global Head of Banking and Finance, Christopher has extensive experience in a wide range of banking and finance matters, with particular expertise in real estate finance, fund finance, asset finance, event driven secured and unsecured financing, derivatives, structured finance, private equity, listings and regulation. As the lead non-contentious partner in the firm's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency Guernsey team, Christopher's practice covers all non-contentious aspects of restructuring and reorganisations, including loan workouts, schemes of arrangement and issues relating to security creation, maintenance and enforcement. He regularly advises on complex cross border reorganisations of regulated and non-regulated structures. Christopher also leads the Guernsey Aviation and Marine sector and advises a wide range of clients on all Guernsey aspects relating to aviation and maritime assets, including registrations on the Guernsey aircraft registry, 2-REG. His transactions include advising a consortium consisting of Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, on the Guernsey financing aspects of the US$3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat. Christopher also regularly advises global investment banks in respect of industry standard documentation produced by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the International Capital Market Association and the International Securities Lending Association. Christopher is an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey, a solicitor in England and Wales and a member of the Bar of New York. Admitted in: 2015 - Guernsey | 2003 - New York State | 1998 - England and Wales