Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Chris advises on a broad range of contentious matters, with a particular focus on complex corporate and commercial disputes.
Chris has experience both in arbitration and in High Court proceedings, often spanning multiple jurisdictions and across a range of sectors, including financial services, hospitality, cryptocurrency and private wealth.
He acts for a range of clients, including large corporates, banks, trustees and high-net-worth individuals. Chris also has experience advising on a variety of internal investigations, employment disputes and cases relating to data privacy.
Experience
- Successfully defending 13 individual Bitcoin developers in a preliminary issue trial in several different claims relating to Dr Craig Wright and concerning the identity of (and Dr Wright’s claim to be) the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, “Satoshi Nakamoto”.
- Acting for an individual shareholder in a substantial unfair prejudice petition raising serious conduct allegations over multiple decades.
- Advising the Trustee of a trust of a high-net-worth family over a dispute in relation to allegations of historic breaches of duty.
- Advising a world-renowned sports team on a variety of employment disputes.
- Advising a large investment bank in relation to sanctions law.