Chris Buck

Chris is a shareholder in the London Private Equity team with a distinctive combination of top-tier law firm experience and in-house leadership. He blends institutional pedigree with operational fluency and sharp commercial judgement.

Chris provides strategic counsel to leading financial sponsors, their investors, portfolio companies, and management on complex transactions across the capital structure. His practice spans leveraged buyouts; strategic M&A and joint ventures; structured, growth and minority equity investments; equity and debt restructurings; management equity plans; public-to-privates; LP secondaries, GP stake sales; SPACs and related advisory work.

He has developed deep pan-European and transatlantic experience – including a period advising in the United States – across multiple sectors, encompassing business services; financial services and fintech; insurance and insurtech; consumer; real estate; industrials; logistics; sports; TMT; and life sciences.

Concentrations

• Private equity
• Private funds
• Venture capital
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate
• Special situations