OUR PEOPLE / CHRIS JEFFERIS

Chris JefferisPartner, London
chris.jefferis@incelaw.com
+44 (0) 20 7481 0010

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Chris is the head of the Insurance Business Group having specialised in this area since becoming a partner in 1990. Chris is one of the many “home grown” partners having been a trainee in the early 1980s.

Prior to that Chris did his law degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was a contemporary with Ince & Co's senior partner, James Wilson.

Having three teenage children takes up a lot of Chris’s time but he tries to maintain his rugby interests (now unfortunately a non-playing capacity) following England both home and away.

Clients say: Chris Jefferis is "accessible, succinct in his advice and very client-friendly." Chambers & Partners 2011

Chris Jefferis is ‘commercial and user friendly, and a strong academic lawyer’. Legal 500 2011

Chris's personal practice concentrates on reinsurance and brokers’ Errors & Omissions dispute resolution matters. Mirroring this on the non-contentious side his practice encompasses policy drafting and agency matters.

In recent years Chris has been kept busy with arbitrations. Although confidential, they centred on the political risk and ART fields, involving some very high values.

Chris appears in the latest Legal 500 where he is described as “very sensible”, reflecting his pragmatic and practical advice.

Earlier in his career Chris undertook a large amount of contentious energy and construction related work. This has given him a good background for his current  insurance related work in this sector, which derives from ongoing close links with the US Gulf region.

This energy related insurance work is also reflected in instructions received in the London market.