Christopher Bond

Practice Areas

Christopher has a general commercial practice, including banking and financial services, civil fraud and asset recovery, professional negligence, international arbitration, cryptocurrencies, takeovers and private equity, sport, telecoms, insurance, aviation, infrastructure, insolvency and restructuring, company law and private international law. Christopher works both as part of a team, with silks and junior juniors, and as a sole advocate. He appears un-led (sometimes against KCs) on multi-day trials and appeals in the Court of Appeal and High Court, as well as interim applications (including freezing injunctions and anti-suit injunctions) and arbitrations (under LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules). Christopher also has experience of mediation advocacy and has given expert evidence on English law in foreign proceedings. Notable recent cases include: acting for a group of defendants in a c.£1.5bn alleged tax reclaim fraud; successfully acting for a bank in a dispute with an Italian municipality over the alleged mis-selling of an interest rate swap; defending fraudulent misrepresentation claims relating to the issue of a cryptocurrency; and acting for a major drinks manufacturer in a dispute arising out of the termination of a cost-sharing agreement and a guarantee.

Career

Magdalen College School, Oxford; Jesus College, University of Oxford (BA (Classics and English); Open Scholar); Yale University (MPhil, PhD (Renaissance Studies and English Literature); Graduate Research Fellowship; Teaching Fellow (English Literature)); City University, London (GDL (Distinction); Teaching Fellow (Equity and Trusts))

Called 2008, Inner Temple (Major Scholar; Governing Bencher); COMBAR (Executive Committee)

Personal

Languages

Reasonable French, basic German and Italian