Chris was born in England and educated at schools in Shropshire, Cornwall and West Sussex before attending Birmingham University where he gained an Honours Degree in Law.

Chris was admitted as a solicitor of England & Wales in 1980 and then worked in the City of London. He moved to Hong Kong in 1987 where he has worked for two large Hong Kong firms being a partner and Head of the Commercial Department at both establishments.

Chris is head of the firm’s Corporate Commercial and China Practice Group. His work consists of commercial, corporate finance, China investment and information technology matters. He was awarded a Masters Degree in Information Technology & Law from Strathclyde University in 2003.

Chris has also provided in-house services to a variety of international corporate entities and prides himself on providing practical business solutions to commercial problems. Chris sits on a number of advisory boards providing strategic planning to commercial entities in Hong Kong and Europe, has written articles and conducted seminars on a variety of differential commercial topics and was a Hong Kong Law Society Sub-Committee member.