Chris Williamson

Chris is a Partner in the Energy sector.

A commodities and international trade expert, Chris has almost 25 years of legal, commercial and front-office experience across the commodities, natural resources, banking and structured finance sectors.

He has deep operational and commercial experience in his sectors and has experience advising on, structuring and executing a range of both physical and financial cross-border commodities transactions involving mining companies, corporates, merchant traders, financial institutions, insurance companies, refiners, smelters and storage companies.

Over the course of his career, Chris has worked on secured lending, prepayment and pre-export finance transactions, sale and purchase transactions, inventory and working capital finance, offtake transactions, non-payment and physical loss insurance policies, as well as derivatives and investor products.

Thanks to a career that includes senior leadership roles at Deutsche Bank, ICBC Standard Bank and Hartree Partners, where he worked directly with metals, energy, carbon and credit trading teams, Chris is uniquely placed in the legal market as a legal expert who has led and worked with front office commercial teams at banks and trading houses with a strong or core focus on commodities.