Christopher Tan
Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance Litigation
- Civil and Family Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- Contentious Regulatory
- Corporate Disputes
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation
- Fraud and Asset Tracing
- Insurance and Personal Injury
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Trust Litigation
- Trusts and Private Wealth View More
Profile
Christopher is a London-based associate in Carey Olsen's Jersey dispute resolution and litigation practice.
Christopher has an interest in a broad range of civil and commercial disputes. He has experience of shareholder disputes, directors' duties litigation, restructuring and insolvency issues, regulatory and public law matters and contractual disputes across industries, including the financial services, energy and retail sectors. He also has an interest in pro bono matters.
In terms of core practice areas, currently, Christopher particularly focusses on complex company law disputes including issues relating to directors' duties and the rights of shareholders. He also has experience in working with UK, US and international counsel in effecting a global strategy in multijurisdictional parallel proceedings, and has assisted with a range of injunctive applications and enforcement proceedings for plaintiffs, defendants and Parties Cited (eg banks).
He maintains an interest in academic legal issues. The Australian Journal of Asian Law published his article on 'Peoples and Postcolonial Self-Determination in Southeast Asia' in 2018 and he co-presented a paper on arbitrating trust disputes at the Society of Legal Scholars 2020 conference. More recently, he contributed Jersey law research to a multijurisdictional comparative law study on the powers of domestic courts and international tribunals conducted by the University of Leiden.
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance Litigation
- Civil and Family Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- Contentious Regulatory
- Corporate Disputes
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation
- Fraud and Asset Tracing
- Insurance and Personal Injury
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Trust Litigation
- Trusts and Private Wealth
Professional Career
Recent Experience Family context is key in blessing applications (Re Z Trust (Jersey))Jersey Litigation Guide 2024 (Chambers)