Christopher Robinson
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Banking Litigation
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About
Provided by Christopher Robinson
Practice Areas
Christopher acts for global banks, insurers and other financial services firms in complex investigations and litigation, often with an international dimension. His experience includes the Lehman Waterfall litigation, the Deutsche Bank v Sebastian litigation, global tax investigations, FCA investigations into financial crime and cyber/resilience issues and FX, equities, bonds, gilts and other market conduct issues, defending insurers in high value coverage disputes and providing strategic advice in relation to Covid-19 and Ukraine related matters
Career
Christopher has been a partner at Freshfields since 2013 and acted as head of its financial disputes practice from 2019 to 2023. He currently chairs the firm's global Risk committee.
Publications
Christopher was a member of the editorial panel for ‘Financial Services: Investigations & Enforcement' and is the author of the enforcement chapter in Bloomsbury's ‘Financial Services Law Guide’.
Chambers Review
UK
Christopher Robinson frequently represents leading investment and commercial banks in multi-jurisdictional disputes. He has significant experience in a variety of matters, including financial crime, contentious regulatory investigations and insolvency-related claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Chris is excellent and regularly handles very important mandates."
"Chris is excellent and regularly handles very important mandates."