Chris Jones

Chris acts for lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions. He has extensive experience and is highly knowledgeable in corporate/leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset-based lending and structured finance. His clients have included major UK and international banks, challenger banks and other alternative lenders, debt investment funds and private equity houses, together with corporate borrower clients in a wide variety of sectors and industries.

Chris has significant asset finance experience, principally involving aviation and rail, where clients have included the Department for Transport, transport specialist banks, and owner-lessors and operating lessees of planes and rolling stock.

Chris also has a strong working knowledge of restructuring, enforcement and insolvency matters.

Chris studied Law at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2003. He qualified as a Solicitor in 2007 and spent the first eight years of his career with the London office of a “Magic Circle” law firm. This period included client secondments to the securitisation transaction execution team of a major international bank and to the in-house legal team of a rolling stock owner-lessor. More recently, Chris was a Partner with an award-winning regional law firm before joining Gateley Legal in January 2020.