EXPERTISE

Chris is an English law qualified lawyer who has been based in Warsaw since 2016. He advises corporates and financial sponsors on private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures, equity investments and franchise and other commercial agreements, with a continued focus on the UK as well as Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, the wider CEE region and emerging markets.

Before moving to Warsaw, Chris worked for a number of years in the Linklaters London office and was seconded to the Legal Corporate/ M&A team of RBS in Edinburgh. He also spent time on secondment with Linklaters in Hong Kong.

Recent experience includes advising*:

• Yum! on its entry into a new master franchise agreement with The Carlyle Group for KFC Japan, KFC’s third largest market, as part of a competitive process and KFC and Taco Bell on their entry into corporate and master franchise agreements with three separate investors involving the sale of business assets and the implementation of an all-new and bespoke franchise model for each of the Netherlands, Italy and Germany
• Mirova on its investment in “Baltic Storage Platform”, an Estonian-based energy storage joint venture
• KFC on its acquisition of 218 KFC outlets in the UK and Ireland from the EG Group
• Qatar Investment Authority on its acquisition of (1) an approx. 20% interest in the D.ream International global fine dining group, whose brands include the well-known Nusr-et (founded by Salt Bae) and Zuma, (2) a 24.5% indirect interest in A.T.A.Ş, the concession holder of the Eurasia Tunnel (which runs under the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul), from the SK group and (3) a 30% interest in the Istinye Park luxury shopping mall in Istanbul from the Doğuş Group and the resulting joint venture arrangements with co-owners Doğuş Group
• Orange Polska on the auction sale of a 50% stake in its fibre-to-the-home business in Poland to APG, including its entry into a joint venture with APG

* Experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard