About

Chris Gupta is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He qualified in 2015 and now has nine years’ post-qualification experience.

Throughout his career Chris has worked predominantly on a commercial disputes, financial services and insolvency practice. This includes four years working on general commercial litigation in private practice, followed by two years working on banking and finance related disputes in London, on behalf of UK banks. After this Chris worked for one year as an in-house disputes lawyer for a FTSE 100 company (Imperial Tobacco). Most recently Chris has worked for more than two years as a recoveries litigation lawyer for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Chris’ key areas of expertise include:

  • Civil fraud and asset recovery
  • Contractual claims
  • Banking and financial services disputes
  • Trusts and equitable claims
  • Insolvency litigation
  • Complex debt recovery
  • Managing multi-jurisdictional litigation
In addition to the above, Chris has an interest, and some experience in:
  • Crypto litigation
  • Derivatives and securitization disputes, and securities litigation
  • Privacy claims

Chris is able to accept instructions on a consultancy basis. Paradigm Legal is a trading name of Thersites Ltd. All reserved legal activities are carried out by Chris through a separate SRA regulated law firm.