Chris's relevant recent experience includes:

in public sector health, NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts on commercial transactions, in particular spin outs and disposals, as well as joint ventures (including cross-border mandates), navigating complex regulatory and commercial contexts to secure value for the NHS and positive patient outcomes. Chris also acts for a multitude of NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts on their ongoing PFI projects, and novel delivery models for new capital projects;

in private sector health, a multitude of providers across both health and social care, and public sector contracting partners on new and trailblazing contracts (including novel clinical services), operational service contracts and business sales/acquisitions, including with international elements;

in local government, a local authority on its highest-profile transformational projects, including the separation of its shared IT service and re-procurement of a cutting-edge contract to enable the authority and its constituent population to benefit from leading AI solutions, and the redevelopment of and procurement of operators to transform an authority-owned estate into a cultural and hospitality destination of national significance;

in regeneration, acting for both grant funders and recipients on deals to develop affordable housing, including a combined authority on over 15 grant agreements from a fund worth in excess of £250 million to catalyse brownfield development, and a grant recipient on a complex grant transaction to deliver over 1,000 homes involving a number of public and private sector stakeholders;

in transport, a combined authority on a number of new and refurbishment station developments, dealing with complex regulatory, funding and commercial issues, as well as a transport authority on the procurement of a region-wide, nine-figure contract to provide and maintain its advertising estate; and

in energy, a local authority on a pathfinder heat network project and novel dynamic purchasing system to support the same, as well as having spent three months on secondment with a big six energy provider during, and in the immediate aftermath of, their merger.

• English
• German – conversational
• French – basic