Professional practice

Christina practises across the breadth of commercial litigation and arbitration. She takes a particular interest in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, and a majority of her work has an international element.

Current and recent instructions include:

  • Acting for the owners of a hotel consortium in LCIA arbitration, seeking an account against directors and fiduciary agents (led by James Sheehan KC).
  • Advising insurers in respect of a claim under a cargo insurance policy, valued in the tens of millions and involving the misappropriation of cargo in West Africa (led by David Walsh KC).
  • Advising Charterers/Buyers as to the exercise of purchase options in time charters (led by Neil Hart KC).
  • Acting for Buyers in a dispute regarding breach of implied terms under Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as sole counsel).
  • Appearing in a variety of County Court hearings on contractual and quantum matters (as sole counsel).

Christina has held teaching positions in Contract Law and Tax Law at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as a Senior Editor at LexisNexis, publishing content on high-profile commercial disputes.

Before coming to the Bar, Christina graduated with a prize-winning First Class Law degree from the University of Oxford. She stayed on at Oxford for her postgraduate studies with an academic scholarship from the Law Faculty, graduating from the BCL with Distinction. She completed her Bar Course with Distinction and was called to the Bar with the top scholarship from Gray’s Inn.

Languages: Greek (native); French (proficient).

Memberships: Commercial Bar Association; Attorney General’s Junior Junior Panel of Counsel; LCIA Users’ Council; British Insurance Law Association; London Shipping Law Centre; London VYAP.

 

Career

2025-present: Tenant at Essex Court Chambers

2025-present: Tutor of Contract Law, University of Oxford

2024-25: Pupillage at Essex Court Chambers

2024: Called to the Bar of England and Wales

2023-24: Tutor of Tax Law, University of Oxford

2021-22: Senior Editor, LexisNexis UK

Education

2023-24: BVS, City University of London (Distinction).

2022-23: BCL, Keble College Oxford (Distinction). Studied Conflict of Laws, Commercial Remedies, Business Taxation, Dissertation.

2017-21: BA Jurisprudence, Jesus College Oxford (First Class, ranked 9th in the year overall, ranked 1st in Personal Property Law).

Awards

2023: Baroness Hale of Richmond Scholarship, Gray’s Inn

2023: Viscount Sankey Scholarship, Jesus College Oxford

2022: Oxford Law Faculty and 4 New Square Chambers Scholarship for the BCL

2021: Oxford Law Faculty Prize in Personal Property Law

2021: Principal’s Prize for Performance in Final Examinations, Jesus College Oxford

2021: Jesus College Oxford Prizes in Tax and EU Law

2020: Winner of the DCU National Moot, and of the Landmark Chambers Property Moot

Arbitration & related court applications

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Acting for the owners of a multinational hotel consortium in LCIA arbitration, seeking an account against directors and fiduciary agents (led by James Sheehan KC).
  • Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding & Ors, in relation to successful applications by a sovereign state in the Commercial Court to enforce four arbitral awards (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • During pupillage, drafting an advice addressing, among other matters, the desirability of requiring that a claim be brought in London arbitration.
Art & Cultural Property
  • Christina has particular expertise in the law of Personal Property, having been ranked first in her year at Oxford in the subject. She is well equipped to handle art and cultural property disputes involving the property torts and issues of title.
  • During pupillage, Christina gained further experience in this area, drafting a defence in connection with a conversion claim in respect of valuable cultural property.

 

Banking & financial services

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Bayerische Landesbank & Ors v RusChemAlliance LLC, a €320m financing dispute, in an application to revoke anti-suit injunctions granted in favour of the claimant banks (as a pupil, assisting Siddharth Dhar KC).
  • A dispute between a major bank and one of its corporate clients, in respect of claims for alleged breach of a Quincecare duty, knowing receipt, dishonest assistance, and participation in fraudulent trading (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • A dispute arising out of a group refinancing arrangement between a multinational e-commerce business and a sovereign investor (as a pupil, assisting Siddharth Dhar KC).

 

Civil fraud & asset recovery

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Acting for the owners of a multinational hotel consortium in LCIA arbitration, seeking an account against directors and fiduciary agents (led by James Sheehan KC).
  • Excalibur Almaz v Horie, involving $50m claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a space tourism business (Isle of Man) (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Fishman v Mangazeev, on claims brought in connection with a loan agreement and applications to vary a freezing order (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Christopher Shaw v Linear, on a claim brought against a broker, involving an alleged breach of trust, and resisting a proprietary asset preservation order (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • A dispute between a major bank and one of its corporate clients, in respect of claims for alleged breach of a Quincecare duty, knowing receipt, dishonest assistance, and participation in fraudulent trading (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
Commercial dispute resolution
  • Christina’s commercial experience spans a broad range of industry sectors. As a pupil, Christina assisted with construing a variety of commercial contracts, including: charterparties; marine insurance policies; yacht construction agreements; MRO aviation agreements; chemicals supply agreements; software licensing and distribution agreements; brokerage agreements; joint venture and partnership agreements; SPAs; assignments; loans; standstill agreements; and settlement agreements.
  • Christina accepts instructions across the full spectrum of commercial disputes, to advise on prospects and quantum of claims, draft pleadings, handle procedural applications, and attend hearings in the High Court, in the County Courts, and in arbitration.
Company & Insolvency

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Acting for the owners of a hotel consortium in LCIA arbitration, seeking an account against directors and fiduciary agents (led by James Sheehan KC).
  • An application for interim relief in respect of a petition seeking the just and equitable winding-up of an alleged quasi-partnership company (Cayman Islands) (as a pupil, assisting James Sheehan KC).
  • An application for anti-suit injunctions and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Advising on the merits of a threatened claim for unlawful expulsion from an LLP (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
Conflict of Laws

Christina has particular expertise in the conflict of laws, holding a Distinction in the subject at postgraduate level on the BCL.

A majority of Christina’s work engages conflict of laws issues. Her experience in this area includes:

  • Jurisdiction and choice of law disputes.
    • Advising in relation to floating choice of law clauses, in connection with a claim under a cargo insurance policy valued in the tens of millions (led by David Walsh KC).
    • Advising on the governing law of claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in Excalibur Almaz v Horie (Isle of Man) (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
    • Advising on forum and choice of law in connection with a multi-jurisdictional aviation dispute in Bridgestone v Turkish Technic (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Anti-suit injunctions.
    • Seeking to revoke ASIs made in favour of claimant banks in Bayerische Landesbank & Ors v RusChemAlliance LLC, in the context of a €320m financing dispute (as a pupil, assisting Siddharth Dhar KC).
    • Seeking ASIs and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Enforcement of arbitral awards & judgments.
    • Pursuing successful applications by a sovereign state in the Commercial Court to enforce four arbitral awards in Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding & Ors (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
    • Pursuing successful joinder proceedings against heirs to a judgment debt as a matter of Lebanese law in Republic of Mozambique v Clara Martinez Thedy de Safa & Ors (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
Injunctions & Emergency Relief

Christina’s experience includes a variety of applications for injunctions and other emergency relief:

  • Prohibitory and mandatory relief. 
    • An application for injunctive relief to prevent the appointment of an additional company director pending a winding up petition (Cayman Islands) (as a pupil, assisting James Sheehan KC).
    • A threatened application for injunctive relief to prevent the cessation of operations of a major chemicals manufacturing plant (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Anti-suit injunctions.
    • Seeking to revoke ASIs made in favour of claimant banks in Bayerische Landesbank & Ors v RusChemAlliance LLC, in the context of a €320m financing dispute (as a pupil, assisting Siddharth Dhar KC).
    • Seeking ASIs and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Asset preservation orders.
    • Seeking to vary a substantial freezing order in Fishman v Mangazeev (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
    • Resisting proprietary asset preservation relief in a claim for breach of trust in Christopher Shaw v Linear (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
Insurance & reinsurance

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Acting for insurers in respect of a claim under a cargo insurance policy, valued in the tens of millions and involving the misappropriation of cargo in West Africa (led by David Walsh KC).
  • Drafting a defence to an H&M claim concerning damage to the mast of a luxury yacht, involving issues of material non-disclosure (as a pupil, with David Walsh KC).
  • Drafting an advice on policy liability for a marine casualty and/or wreck recovery, raising issues of fraud, unseaworthiness, and causation (as a pupil, with David Walsh KC).
International trade, transport & commodities

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Advising Charterers/Buyers as to the exercise of purchase options in time charters (led by Neil Hart KC).
  • Acting for Buyers in a dispute regarding breach of implied terms under Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as sole counsel).
  • A variety of dry shipping and aviation matters (as a pupil).
    • Bridgestone v Turkish Technic, a multi-jurisdictional aviation dispute, raising issues of contractual allocation and management of risk (assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
    • Advising on the proper construction of a PBH aviation agreement.
    • Drafting a skeleton argument on the proper construction of war risks and piracy risks clauses in a voyage charter.
    • Drafting defences to claims for hire, port charges, and agency fees.
    • Advising on a claim involving the shipment of dangerous cargo and liability under a time charter and under the Hague-Visby Rules.
    • Advising on liability for demurrage under a voyage charter.
    • Advising on liability in respect of stevedore negligence under a time charter.
Offshore Litigation

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Excalibur Almaz v Horie, involving $50m claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a space tourism business (Isle of Man) (as a pupil, assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • An application for injunctive relief to prevent the appointment of an additional company director pending a winding up petition (Cayman Islands) (as a pupil, assisting James Sheehan KC).
  • An opinion regarding the effectiveness of a purported assignment involving a BVI entity, and the impact of the BVI sanctions regime on the assignment (as a pupil, assisting James Sheehan KC).
Revenue law (including VAT, IPT, duties & excise)
  • Christina has particular expertise in tax and associated public law issues. She formerly taught Tax Law at the University of Oxford, previously having focused on this area at both postgraduate and undergraduate level (with first class marks throughout).
  • Christina accepts instructions in tax tribunal disputes, as sole counsel or as part of a team. She also particularly welcomes instructions on commercial matters involving tax issues.
  • Christina is on the Attorney General’s Junior Junior Panel of Counsel.

 

Shipping, ship sale & shipbuilding

Christina’s experience in this area includes:

  • Advising Charterers/Buyers as to the exercise of purchase options in time charters (led by Neil Hart KC).
  • A variety of other dry shipping matters (as a pupil):
    • Drafting a skeleton argument on the proper construction of war risks and piracy risks clauses in a voyage charter.
    • Drafting defences to claims for hire, port charges, and agency fees.
    • Advising on a claim involving the shipment of dangerous cargo and liability under a time charter and under the Hague-Visby Rules.
    • Advising on liability for demurrage under a voyage charter.
    • Advising on liability in respect of stevedore negligence under a time charter.