Christopher Bates

Practice Areas

Chris Bates advises banks, securities firms and other financial institutions on issues associated with the impact of Brexit, regulatory response to the financial crisis, the impact of the EU single market programme, financial services regulation and regulatory capital, as well as advising on securities and derivatives transactions and mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector.

Chris is a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

Career

Christ Church, Oxford (BA, Law) 1978

Columbia Law School, New York (LLM) 1979

Joined Clifford Chance 1980

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1982

Partner since 1987-2021

Special Counsel, Consultant to Clifford Chance since 2021