Christopher is the Head of Corporate and is a member of Druces Executive Committee which manages the firm’s direction and vision for the future.
He deals with a broad range of corporate matters, including debt and equity capital markets, national and international joint ventures, transaction financing and group restructuring. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions in regulated environments and has particular expertise in advising financiers, investors, owners and operators in the leisure, funding and healthcare sectors. He has over 20 years’ experience in dealing with Sharia’a compliant transactions.
Christopher is a contributing author of Jordans “Care Standards: A Practical Guide”.
He read Economics at Exeter University before switching his interests to Law and being called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn and subsequently cross qualifying as a solicitor in 2003. He joined Druces in October 2007 from another City practice where he was also a Corporate Partner.
Legal 500
Christopher has been recommended in the Legal 500 since 2006, in particular for his work in corporate and commercial M&A, real estate finance, Islamic finance and corporate restructuring. He is particularly noted for “health sector transactions” and is renowned for his “extensive experience in acting in regulated environments.” He is recognised for making clients “feel very valued” while “also being extremely professional”. Christopher is noted as being well known for “offering timely and commercial advice”, and leading a team which is “hands-on, pragmatic and focused on execution”.
Christopher leads the healthcare team, a sector strength for Druces LLP, and has been recognised in the Legal 500 for a wide variety of sector deals in healthcare and leading a finance team which “demonstrate an excellent technical ability, are thorough and methodical, and best of all are an absolute pleasure to deal with”. In a recent edition a client comments that “Chris Axford, on the banking side, is always working hard to ensure our documentation is up-to-date in all respects and keeping us well-protected”.
