Chris has a broad commercial practice encompassing complex commercial disputes, international arbitration, company law, and cross-border insolvency.  He is recommended for Commercial Litigation by Legal 500.

Chris joined chambers in July 2020 from Kobre & Kim, where he gained extensive experience of complex and cross-border disputes, with experience in particular of developing and executing global strategies for the enforcement of court judgments and arbitration awards.  In addition to acting as both junior and sole counsel in proceedings before the English Courts, Chris has worked extensively on off-shore representations with jurisdictions including the BVI, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and Gibraltar. He has also worked closely with co-counsel in civil law jurisdictions including France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich), the Republic of Korea, Jamaica, and the Netherlands.

Chris’s international arbitration experience encompasses both commercial and investor state arbitration, with recent experience including representation of Elliott Associates in its ongoing investor state dispute against the Republic of Korea (PCA Case No. 2018-51). Before Kobre & Kim, Chris practised in the arbitration team at Wilmer Hale in London, specialising in international commercial disputes in a wide range of commercial areas, including financial services, oil and gas and aviation disputes. Chris has experience of working as a secretary in international commercial arbitrations under the ICC and LCIA rules.

He is one of the editors of Gore-Browne on Companies. Chris accepts instructions in a range of chambers’ work, with a particular focus on commercial litigation and arbitration, company law, commercial chancery, enforcement of judgments and awards. Chris is admitted in the BVI and also accepts instructions in offshore work.