William Christopher
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Fraud: Civil
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Band 3
About
Provided by William Christopher
Practice Areas
William's main areas of expertise include:
• Civil fraud (often involving multiple jurisdictions)
• Internal fraud investigations
• General commercial litigation (including shareholder disputes)
• Contentious and fraud related insolvency litigation
Career
William is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Dispute Resolution team, based in London. He deals mainly with civil fraud litigation and asset recovery.
William has acted in many international fraud cases throughout his career, involving the recovery of assets concealed in offshore jurisdictions. He is highly experienced in using freezing injunctions, search orders and disclosure orders in international fraud investigations. He acts as a supervising solicitor in the execution of search orders.
William acts for foreign governments,HNW individuals, corporates, and trustees both corporate and individuals.
Professional Memberships
William is a member of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, the Fraud Lawyers Association, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and the Victims of Crime Association of Lawyers,a European-wide association of which he is a founding member.
Publications
William writes extensively for external publications including the Global Investigation Review.He was also a contributing author to Lexology's Getting the Deal Through 2020 - Asset Recovery.
Personal
William lives in North London with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time he writes and produces music and DJs.
Chambers Review
UK
William Christopher has extensive knowledge of civil fraud as well as cross-border asset recovery proceedings. He acts for both claimants and defendants and has notable experience in fraud claims arising from insolvency.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He makes all the right moves on cases and is very insightful."
"He's very straight talking and very commercial."
"He makes all the right moves on cases and is very insightful."
"He's very straight talking and very commercial."