Chris focuses his practice on complex business litigation. He represents privately-held companies, partnerships, private investment funds, startups and emerging companies in cases involving contract disputes, investment and deal disputes, corporate governance disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, and other business torts.
Chris also routinely advises business owners on a variety of legal issues involving starting and running a company, working with consultants and advisors, corporate governance, financing activities, licensing and protection of brands and intellectual property, and general risk management practices.
Chris began his legal career as a litigation associate at a nationally recognized law firm in Boston and later in law firms in New York City. As a member of the litigation team, Chris handled a variety of commercial disputes, including investment disputes surrounding foreign investors’ participation in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. Before forming HAN LLP, Chris worked for a family office hedge fund in New York City as its General Counsel, advising its principal on a broad range of legal matters.
While in law school, Chris served as a judicial intern to the Hon. William G. Young in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and to the Hon. Frank J. Bailey in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts. Additionally, as one of the few selectees to the Student Honors Legal Program of the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, Chris worked at the SEC’s Enforcement Division, where he actively involved in SEC’s investigations of multinational pharmaceuticals companies in alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Before attending law school, Chris worked in the Legal and Compliance Practice at Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner), a global best practices and technology firm based in Arlington, Virginia. As a senior quantitative analyst at CEB, he advised legal and compliance executives in the Fortune 100 companies on the potential risk of misconduct arising from an unethical corporate culture based on data-driven insights.