Partner
Chris has been working within the asset
based lending arena all of his professional career
since he qualified as a solicitor in 1992. During this time Chris
has worked in private practice and in-house for both a trade
financier and an Asset Based Lender gaining valuable experience of
the day to day challenges faced by financiers, the result of which
have given Chris the ability to give extremely practical advice
always with the clients goals, working environment and
sensitivities in mind. Chris' extremely broad range of experience
and dedication to the asset based lending arena make
him a valued and trusted advisor to his various asset
based lending and finance clients.
Chris is also qualified as a barrister and
solicitor in Nova Scotia, Canada and has held a practicing
certificate there since he qualified in 2008.
Chris' expertise covers advising on all
aspects of asset based lending,
receivables financing, trade financing and banking, principally for
UK based clients but often with multi-jurisdictional facilities. On
the contentious side, he specialises in debt and asset recovery,
particularly following fraud including obtaining and enforcing
injunctive relief often on a worldwide basis. On the
non-contentious side, his specialism's include advising on and
drafting finance facility documents, security documents (corporate
and personal), drafting of new and complimentary finance
facilities, documenting finance elements of business sales and
acquisitions, refinancing and other similar transactions including
syndicated lending transactions. He often advises on compliance
issues particularly in respect of the Data Protection Act and the
Construction Industry Scheme.
Chris has worked on some of the largest, most
high profile and complex asset based finance transactions in the
UK, has successfully litigated for clients in various jurisdictions
including the English Court of Appeal, has experience of mediation
and other alternative dispute resolution strategies and is entirely
comfortable advising on any day to day issues that may affect an
asset based lender or any of its clients.
Chris sits on the Asset Based Finance
Association Legal & Technical Committee and Operations Forum
and presents regularly on various aspects of his practice areas.
Chris is the chairman of the Asset Based Finance Association
working party dealing with financial issues in the recruitment
sector. Chris Heads the Asset Based Lending team
at Blake Lapthorn, which is part of the firm's Finance
sector group which is complimented by its Banking,
Insolvency and Business Recovery, Corporate and Commercial Recoveries teams.
