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Christopher is a member of Lawrence Graham's management team and leads the Corporate group.

Previously, Christopher was the managing partner of Tite & Lewis, a UK law firm established in association with PwC and subsequently Ernst & Young.  Tite & Lewis merged with LG in 2004.

He was an executive board member of EY Law, Ernst & Young's global law business, with more than 3,000 lawyers operating in over 30 countries worldwide.   Previously he was a member of the PwC Global Legal Executive and he co-led the PwC/Landwell International M&A Network.

Before establishing Tite & Lewis, Christopher was a partner in Stephenson Harwood, a City of London law firm, where he was a member of that firm's Management Board and specialised in cross-border corporate transactions.

He is also a trustee of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, which is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Christopher specialises in advising ports world-wide on all aspects of their ownership, operation, development and regulation.  He has particular experience of structuring, documenting and negotiating port transactions and projects including mergers and acquisitions, privatisations and significant infrastructure developments. 

He is the consulting editor of Halsbury's Laws of England on ports and harbours and a member of UK Trade & Investment's Ports Advisory Group.

• The development of a major new deep sea container terminal at a UK port. Created and managed the implementation of legal, environmental and other relevant strategies applicable to the project and its related large-scale habitat creation scheme. Significantly for a nationally significant infrastructure of its size and type, consent was obtained very quickly without scrutiny at a public inquiry.
• Led the legal team which advised the buyer on the privatisation of a major UK port which involved the creation of a unique structure, involving the entry into a concession (through the grant of long leasehold interests and the entry into a management agreement), asset sale and purchase, and complicated share rights.
• Advised in connection with the UK privatisation of a former Royal Naval dockyard and the development of that facility as a new commercial port which involved the need to enshrine commercial terms in a framework that took full account of the requirement to satisfy the Government’s applicable privatisation policies and an industry-specific regulatory regime and included the creation of specific rights entitling Government to participate (through a clawback mechanism) in profits realised on future trading and/or real estate development, as well as advising in connection with an application for a harbour revision order under the Harbours Act 1964.
• The preparation and promotion of harbour revision orders including, for example, to transfer harbour authority functions; to authorise a long term scheme of improvements at a UK port including new quays and berths, passenger facilities and ship repair facilities; and to grant development consent for the deep sea container terminal mentioned above.
• Advised in relation to proposals to develop the Platiyali maritime industrial area and commercial port facilities at Astakos, Western Greece.
• Advised a public sector body as the owner and operator of a commercial port on alternative project structures and its procurement of a partner to provide port services which involved advice on the application of the public and utilities procurement rules, planning and project managing the procurement exercise and dealing with related procurement law enquiries. 
• The phased development of a new container/general purpose port in Turkey involving the grant of a concession, port operating agreement and the entry into a shareholders' agreement regulating the relationship between the stakeholders.