Chris is a partner in the Finance & Restructuring Practice Group. He devotes his practice to representing institutional clients in financing transactions with a broad range of borrowers, including venture capital funds and other private equity funding entities, high net worth individuals, public and private corporations, life science and technology companies, and real estate investment funds.

Chris has extensive experience structuring, documenting, and negotiating capital call lines of credit, subscription-based credit facilities and other fund level financing, management company facilities, and technology and venture debt transactions. His work involves both domestic and international transactions, including secured financings in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, North America, and Europe.

Chris serves on the firm’s Nominating Committee and is a member of the Finance & Restructuring Group’s management team.

• Represented lender clients as first-chair in more than 600 capital call lines of credit, subscription-based credit facilities, and management company facilities, ranging from $500,000 to $150 million.
• Represented a bank lender in a $203 million facility restructure.
• Represented a bank lender in a $100 million line of credit, including a $20 million channel finance sublimit.
• Represented a bank lender in a $25 million line of credit to an international fine wine retailer in New York and Hong Kong.
• Represented a bank lender in a bridge loan guaranteed by various venture capital investors and secured by funds pledged by additional venture capital investors.
• Represented a bank lender in growth capital term loans and lines of credit to various U.S. and foreign technology companies ranging from $500,000 to $50 million.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Banking and Finance Law (2024-2026)
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity fellow (2022)