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Christopher Boyne

Christopher Boyne

UK 2026

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About

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UK

Practice Areas

Christopher Boyne is a partner based in the London office, where he works in the Litigation Department. Mr. Boyne’s practice focuses on complex litigation and he has wide-ranging commercial litigation experience across a wide variety of industries and geographies including financial institutions and multinational corporations.

He has represented clients on a variety of high-profile litigation matters including large-scale corporate disputes, shareholder/joint venture disputes, civil fraud claims and court applications relating to arbitral proceedings. He has extensive experience of applications to challenge the jurisdiction of the English Courts as well and advising on interim and protective measures in both English and foreign courts. This experience includes successfully obtaining and defending billion-dollar freezing injunctions. He has also advised on a wide range of banking and insolvency related matters, including in respect of some of the most significant cases arising out of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Commercial and Corporate Litigation - London (Firms)

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Chris Boyne handles a variety of highly contentious disputes relating to shareholder and joint venture agreements. He frequently represents leading private equity funds as well as major clients in the oil and gas sector.

Strengths

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  • Chris Boyne is a go-to partner for commercial disputes. He is super-smart, highly commercial, and is invariably two moves ahead of the opposition. He is also very easy to work with.

    Commercial and Corporate LitigationChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Chris Boyne is excellent. He is a trusted commercial advisor to a number of high profile in-house counsel and brilliant commercial litigator who punches well above his weight in terms of seniority.

    Commercial and Corporate LitigationChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Chris is a very calm litigator, he is somebody you want in your team because he can rise above the bluster and give calm and collected advice.

    Commercial and Corporate LitigationChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Christopher Boyne is very commercial and focused both on the client's needs and on how to achieve them.He is very thorough and makes sure everything is covered.

    Commercial and Corporate LitigationChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Chris is immensely likeable, hugely driven and a very able lawyer.

    Commercial and Corporate LitigationChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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