
Chris has more than two decades of litigation and trial experience in the financial services, technology, and health care industries. He is a trusted advisor to some of the largest global financial services organizations and asset managers, and their directors and officers. Chris represents clients in complex litigation, class actions and internal investigations involving claims by shareholders, policy owners and agents, including securities and derivative actions. He successfully defends corporate clients with strategic, results-driven advocacy.
Chris has particular depth of experience in the insurance industry, including cyber insurance policies, bank-owned life insurance products, and universal life insurance products, and with reinsurance arrangements, underwriting and reserving practices, financial reporting, and the economic performance of insurance entities. He also advises clients on data protection and security and the enforcement of data, intellectual property, and contractual rights. This includes assisting clients in investigating and addressing cybersecurity events and data breaches, and the litigation that often follows. His technology work includes matters involving artificial intelligence, cyberattacks, data scraping, proprietary and open source computer code, virtual reality, and commercial software products in the storage, database, and planning and scheduling areas.
As a litigator, Chris has achieved notable success in the courtroom. He has obtained numerous favorable outcomes for clients in “bet the company” representations across the country, including those involving cutting-edge technology and assets where the amounts in controversy have exceeded billions of dollars. Chris also litigates data theft, trade secret, and non-compete issues in Massachusetts state and federal courts. He has obtained — and also defeated — numerous preliminary and permanent injunctions involving trade secrets and proprietary business information.
As an adjunct to his litigation practice, Chris is also regularly called on to advise companies on litigation risk, indemnification arrangements, and other issues related to mergers and acquisitions in the technology and financial services industries.