Chris has over 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial advisory. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, governance, restructuring, labour and corporate advisory matters. He has experience in advising investment funds, large corporations and financial institutions on acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and restructuring projects in the Asia-Pacific region, most recently in Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar. Chris also has extensive industry experience in the financial services, telecommunications, education and pharmaceutical sectors. He completed his Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor Law (University of New South Wales) in 1994 and was admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1996 and the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2004. He is a fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia and a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. He is ranked as an elite/market leading lawyer by top legal directories, including Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR and is the author of the Cambodian chapter in Wolters Kluwer, Mergers & Acquisitions. In addition, he is recently recognized as an elite practitioner in Capital markets, Corporate and M&A, Private equity by Asialaw 2021.