Christopher Bond

Call: 2008; MA (Oxon); MPhil, PhD (Yale); CPE (City)
Email: cbond@3vb.com

Christopher has a general commercial practice, in line with Chambers' profile. He has experience of a broad range of work, much of it with an international dimension, including banking, financial services, insurance, civil fraud, professional negligence, conflict of laws, insolvency, trusts and company law.

Christopher works both as part of a team on major commercial disputes and as a sole advocate on smaller matters.

Current or recent large-scale instructions include defending a misrepresentation claim against Merrill Lynch in relation to a CDO (led by Ewan McQuater QC); acting for Co-Op Bank in a professional negligence claim against a solicitors firm (led by Andrew Fletcher QC); and directors disqualification proceedings arising out of a major fraud (led by Ewan McQuater QC). Christopher appears unled on multi-day trials and appeals in the Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court, as well as interim applications (including freezing injunctions) and insolvency matters.

Academic Qualifications

• BA (Hons) in Classics and English, Jesus College, University of Oxford (2000)
• MPhil in Renaissance Studies, Yale University (2003)
• PhD in English Literature, Yale University (2006)
• CPE/GDL (Distinction), City University Law School, London (2007)

Scholarships and Awards

• Open Scholarship, Jesus College, Oxford (1998-2000)
• Genner Prize for Classics, Jesus College, Oxford (1999)
• Giamatti Award for MPhil, Yale University (2001-2003)
• H.P. Kraus Research Award, Yale University (2004)
• Elizabethan Club Essay Prize, Yale University (2006)
• Finalist, City University CPE Mooting Competition (2007)
• Major Scholarship, Inner Temple (2007-2008)
• Winner, Inner Temple Mooting Competition (Lawson Moot) (2008)

Appointments

• Graduate Research Fellowship, Yale University (2001-2006)
• Assistant Editor, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities (2001-2003)
• Teaching Fellow (English Literature), Yale University (2003-2005)
• Teaching Fellow (Equity and Trusts), City University Law School (2007-2008)

Publications

"The effect of foreign illegality on English law contracts" JIBFL October 2010 (with Gregory Mitchell QC)  

Contributor to Key Authorities in Banking Law, ed. Sonia Tolaney QC et al. (forthcoming).

Talks

Fraud on Companies by Directors and Employees: A Practical Guide" (with Matthew Parker and Anne Jeavons)

Professional Memberships

• Inner Temple
• COMBAR 

Languages

Basic French, German and Italian