Chris is the Managing Partner at Capital Law LLP. A commercial lawyer specialising in resolving disputes, Chris deals with the firm’s more complex, sensitive or high value cases, covering the full spectrum of litigation and employment work. As head of the Commercial Disputes team, Chris’ particular expertise lies in partnership disputes, professional negligence matters, shareholder disputes and senior executive terminations.
He has particular expertise in:
- Partnership disputes
- Professional negligence matters
- Shareholder disputes
- Senior executive terminations.
In addition to handling specific legal cases, Chris also regularly advises a wide range of clients about a range of commercial and operational issues, sometimes as a non-executive director but more often as a retained consultant. Chris has a particular interest in organisational and operational structures as well as governance issues, in the private and public sector.
Founding partner and head of the commercial disputes team, Christopher Nott is praised for “knowing his area of the law inside-out.” With an employment law background, he is particularly noted for his expertise in disputes with an employment element and is well-recognised for being able to “combine creativity with attention to detail.” Chambers and Partners
He is the Chairman or non-executive director of Consult Capital (and their subsidiaries) (http://www.consultcapital.co.uk/.), Give Me My Money Limited (http://www.givememymoney.co.uk/about-us.html), Capital Real Estate Management (http://www.capitalrem.co.uk/) and Channel Fisheries Limited (http://channel.hostinguk.com/home.aspx.). He is also the founder and Chair of Knife and Fork Food Limited (http://www.knifeandforkfood.co.uk/), a catering and restaurant group with venues around Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
Chris is or has been a governor, director or chairman of several not for profit organisations, including Cardiff Community Housing Association Limited (http://www.ccha.org.uk/en/home.htm) and the BBC Audience Council for Wales (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiencecouncil/), as well as spending four years as the Chairman of The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (www.rwcmd.ac.uk). He is currrently a nonexecutive director of the Cardiff Blues regonal rugby team (www.cardiffblues.com)
In February 2011, he was appointed by the Welsh Government to Chair one of its six private sector advisory panels. The Financial and Professional Services advisory panel helps the Welsh Government to understand what action the private sector thinks it should take to help encourage and grow business in this sector in Wales.
