Chris Haan
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Group Litigation: Claimant
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About
Provided by Chris Haan
Practice Areas
Chris Haan specialises in group and class actions and complex litigation. He is responsible for managing Phi Finney McDonald’s London office. Dual qualified as a solicitor in Australia and England and Wales, Chris’s wide litigation experience includes collective actions in the areas of securities and shareholder claims, investment and financial product fraud, competition and cartels, mass torts, product liability, employment, environmental and human rights. He conducted the first opt-out competition law class action in the UK and his cases have included some of the most significant group actions in the UK, such as the Volkswagen emissions group litigation. Chris’s clients range from major institutional investors and financial institutions to individuals and charities.
Publications
Rachel Tandy and Chris Haan, “Collective stress of collective redress? Examining available mechanisms for securities litigation in England and Wales”, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law (October 2023).
Chambers Review
UK
Chris Haan of Phi Finney McDonald has particular expertise in acting for investor claimant groups in securities class actions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Chris has a huge amount of claimant-side group litigation experience. He is a really good strategist and knows how things will play in court."
"Chris is a superb tactician. He is incredibly bright and is very inventive in finding new legal solutions to difficult problems."
"Chris has a meticulous and thorough approach - he knows the law inside-out."
"He is very good at providing an explanation of the salient legal and commercial issues of the case."
"Chris has a huge amount of claimant-side group litigation experience. He is a really good strategist and knows how things will play in court."
"Chris is a superb tactician. He is incredibly bright and is very inventive in finding new legal solutions to difficult problems."
"Chris has a meticulous and thorough approach - he knows the law inside-out."
"He is very good at providing an explanation of the salient legal and commercial issues of the case."