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Head of corporate.

Position

Christopher is a partner at Lawrence Graham LLP, where he is a member of its management team and leads the corporate practice group. Christopher specialises in advising significant entrepreneurial or family-owned enterprises and their owners, many of whom are his long-standing clients. His wider business advisory skills mean that they frequently turn to him for strategic and tactical advice which often extends well beyond the application of black letter law. His work, which is both advisory and transactional, covers the full business law spectrum ranging from structuring, documenting and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements to advising business owners on business exits, succession planning and wealth protection. Christopher has an industry focus on transport and logistics, especially ports which he advises worldwide on all aspects of their ownership, operation, development and regulation. He is the consulting editor on ports and harbours to ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England’.

Career

Christopher was the managing partner of Tite & Lewis, a UK law firm established in association with PwC and subsequently Ernst & Young. Tite & Lewis merged with Lawrence Graham LLP in 2004. He was also an executive board member of EY Law, Ernst & Young’s global law business, with more than 3,000 lawyers operating in over 30 countries worldwide. Before establishing Tite & Lewis, Christopher was a partner in Stephenson Harwood, a City of London law firm, where he was a member of that firm’s management board and specialised in cross-border corporate transactions.

Member

PwC Global Legal Executive (1997-2000); Ernst & Young Global Law Board (2000-04).

Practice Areas

Corporate finance; M&A