Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Chris is a partner and co-head of our global sovereign wealth fund client group. He is a skilled M&A and private equity/funds lawyer who has established an exceptionally strong reputation among sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and corporate clients, which have consistently turned to him for their most complex, highest profile matters in the Middle East and beyond.

Chris has advised on investments in a variety of sectors, cross-border M&A and JVs and private equity and funds matters, including LP fund investments, co-investments, and direct investments (including VC deals and infrastructure investments), across a wide range of geographies (particularly the US, LatAm, Europe as well as almost all MENA countries).

Chris joined the firm in 2006 and has been focused on deals for MENA clients and in the MENA region throughout the past two decades, initially from London and then from the UAE, having relocated to help found Cleary’s Abu Dhabi office (the hub of our MENA practice) in 2012.

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England and Wales

University of Cambridge – M.A., 1999

Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Law School – LPC, 2000