Christopher Boardman
Call: 1995
Education: LLM (London)
Languages: Fluent in French
Email: boardman@11sb.com
Tel: 020 7831 6381 (465#)
Practice Specialisms:
Profile
Chris was first in his year at Bar School and is now a leading junior practicing in commercial, company and insolvency law. His practice involves complex business disputes involving:
- Franchise and distributorship agreements
- Electricity and gas projects
- Lending and security instruments
- Company acquisitions
- Shareholder agreements
- Directors’ duties and liabilities
- Derivative actions
- S459/994 petitions
- Capital issues
- Dividends
- Corporate rescues
- Liquidations and bankruptcies
- Asset recovery
Chris is noted in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for being "technically excellent and good on his feet"; his entry to a case being described as "akin to the cavalry arriving".
Garnering much positive feedback this year, Chris Boardman is many people's number-one barrister. Viewed as "almost faultless," he impresses as "a bullish advocate who's superb on his feet." Peers describe him as "bright, commercial and focused on what needs to be done in order to get a result." He is especially popular with clients, who find him "unstuffy and excellent when it comes to technical knowledge, with the ability to run a complicated case." (Chambers & Partners 2009)
According to peers, Christopher Boardman is "very bright and likeable," and such is his advocacy style that peers also find him "all too easy to listen to - he has the ear of the court." (Chambers & Partners 2008)