Chris is counsel in our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring group based in the Cayman Islands. He has extensive experience of acting on commercial litigation and arbitration matters, with particular experience of banking and financial services disputes, shareholder and investor disputes, contentious insurance claims, and distressed fund issues.
Chris was previously a member of the in-house litigation team at Barclays Bank in London, where he was Head of Litigation and co-head of the broader Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement team for the EME region. Chris has extensive experience of advising on the full spectrum of contentious banking issues spanning retail, commercial, investment and private banking. In addition to litigation matters, Chris also has wide ranging experience of advising on contentious regulatory issues and investigations.
Prior to his time at Barclays, Chris practised for 5 years at another Cayman firm. He trained and spent the first years of his career with Herbert Smith (as the firm then was) in London, where he was a member of their market-leading contentious insurance team.