Overview
Representative Matters

Christopher brings extensive experience in corporate law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, emerging businesses, and ongoing corporate affairs. He guides buyers and sellers through acquisitions across diverse industries, including technology, media, hospitality, health care, real estate development and brokerage, and consumer products. Christopher handles post-acquisition management, arbitration, and mediation related to indemnification and price adjustments.

Christopher supports entrepreneurs and emerging businesses in connection with organizational and capital-raising activities. He assists with entity selection, technology transfers, product distribution, and financing transactions. Christopher’s clients range from tech startups to biotech firms, many of which have grown into public companies or have been acquired.

Christopher also provides comprehensive legal advice on corporate governance, equity and debt offerings, shareholder disputes, and international operations. He represents private equity firms, foreign-owned businesses, and public companies in various strategic investments and compliance matters.

  • Represented an international hotel group in the sale of several hotel and resort properties.
  • Advised a private equity firm on debt and equity investments in a hotel and residential development in Mexico, facilitating cross-border investment opportunities.
  • Guided a privately held manufacturer of medical products through several strategic acquisitions.
  • Assisted a large international media enterprise in acquiring U.S.-based post-production companies, expanding its operational capabilities and market reach.
  • Counseled a theatrical, television, and digital film distribution group in its acquisition by a strategic buyer.
  • Structured a joint venture for an electronics engineering firm to develop integrated circuits.
  • Facilitated the acquisition of an automobile parts remanufacturer by a private equity fund, followed by a series of strategic acquisitions to bolster growth.

Christopher brings extensive experience in corporate law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, emerging businesses, and ongoing corporate affairs. He guides buyers and sellers through acquisitions across diverse industries, including technology, media, hospitality, health care, real estate development and brokerage, and consumer products. Christopher handles post-acquisition management, arbitration, and mediation related to indemnification and price adjustments.

Christopher supports entrepreneurs and emerging businesses in connection with organizational and capital-raising activities. He assists with entity selection, technology transfers, product distribution, and financing transactions. Christopher’s clients range from tech startups to biotech firms, many of which have grown into public companies or have been acquired.

Christopher also provides comprehensive legal advice on corporate governance, equity and debt offerings, shareholder disputes, and international operations. He represents private equity firms, foreign-owned businesses, and public companies in various strategic investments and compliance matters.

  • Represented an international hotel group in the sale of several hotel and resort properties.
  • Advised a private equity firm on debt and equity investments in a hotel and residential development in Mexico, facilitating cross-border investment opportunities.
  • Guided a privately held manufacturer of medical products through several strategic acquisitions.
  • Assisted a large international media enterprise in acquiring U.S.-based post-production companies, expanding its operational capabilities and market reach.
  • Counseled a theatrical, television, and digital film distribution group in its acquisition by a strategic buyer.
  • Structured a joint venture for an electronics engineering firm to develop integrated circuits.
  • Facilitated the acquisition of an automobile parts remanufacturer by a private equity fund, followed by a series of strategic acquisitions to bolster growth.
  • Member, State Bar of California
  • Member, Foreign Trade Association
  • Former member, Los Angeles County Bar Association Executive Committee
  • Former member, State Bar of California Business Law Section Education Committee

Education

  • Cornell Law School, J.D., 1983
  • University of Southern California, A.B., magna cum laude, 1979, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi
  • University of London

Bar Admissions

  • California