Chris is the founding and Managing Partner of HAN LLP, a business law firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

Chris dedicates his practice to helping clients resolve complex business disputes. He represents privately held companies, partnerships, private investment funds, startups, and emerging companies in cases involving commercial disputes in contracts, deals, corporate governance issues, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, and other business torts.

He also routinely advises business owners on legal issues involving starting and running a company, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, working with consultants and advisors, corporate governance, licensing and protection of brands and intellectual property, and general risk management practices.

Chris began his legal career as a litigation associate at a nationally recognized law firm in Boston and later in law firms in New York City. As a litigation team member in those firms, Chris handled many commercial disputes, including investment disputes relating to foreign investors’ participation in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.

While in law school, Chris served as a judicial intern to the Honorable William G. Young, U.S.D.J. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the now retired Honorable Frank J. Bailey in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court – District of Massachusetts.

Before attending law school, Chris worked in the Legal and Compliance Practice at Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner), a global best practices and technology firm in Arlington, Virginia. As a senior quantitative analyst at CEB, he advised legal and compliance executives in Fortune 100 companies on the risks of employee misconduct arising from an unethical corporate culture based on data-driven insights.

Selected to Southern California and New York Metro Rising Stars by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters company, from 2018 to 2023.

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