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Biography

Chris specialises in advising private capital managers on establishing and operating private funds, separate managed accounts, corporate investment vehicles and carried interest and co-investment structures. He has particular expertise in private credit, having advised clients on the formation of blind pool funds and funds of one across a range of credit strategies and structures domiciled in diverse jurisdictions including the UK, the Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland and the Cayman Islands, from traditional closed-ended to evergreen, vintage and semi-liquid. Chris also regularly advises clients on university spin-out funding vehicles, deal-by-deal private equity structures, secondaries transactions, GP stake sales and team equity ownership arrangements, leveraging over 10 years’ previous experience as an M&A lawyer at Macfarlanes. Clients value Chris’s creativity in problem solving and his commercial and pragmatic approach to negotiation. Over his career, Chris has spent time on secondment at Hayfin Capital Management, in the strategic investment group of a large UK bank and at ICAP, giving him valuable insight into client-side commercial drivers and pressures.