Christopher Pease

Background

About Christopher Pease

Chris is co-head of Harneys' Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team in the British Virgin Islands. His broad practice covers fraud and asset recovery, enforcement, digital asset disputes, contractual disputes, corporate (shareholder and management) disputes and insolvency and restructuring. Chris has extensive experience tracing and recovering assets, often in circumstances where there has been fraud or other wrongdoing. This often entails seeking pre-action disclosure orders, bringing equitable and tortious claims, enforcing foreign judgments and awards, preserving assets through the use of injunctions and receivership orders, and enforcement by way of execution against assets. Chris regularly advises on liquidation proceedings, which often complements and can be a critical adjunct to his asset recovery work. He advises both creditors and debtors in winding up applications. He also advises many court-appointed liquidators and receivers when recovering assets and bringing claw-back claims. In recent years a significant part of Chris’ practice has involved digital assets and cryptocurrency and he has acted on some of the most innovative and high-profile cases in the BVI. This work has included crypto tracing and recovery (eg ChainSwap), liquidation and receiverships (eg Hector DAO), contractual disputes, token disputes and arbitrations. Before he moved to the BVI in 2017, Chris practised as a solicitor in London for more than 10 years. He initially trained and worked at a US firm specialising in fraud and asset recovery work before moving to Linklaters where he advised accounting firms, banks and private equity funds on a broad range of disputes and investigations.