Christopher Ashen is a senior associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. He joined the firm in 2023. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Christopher worked as a lawyer at one of Australia’s leading law firms, where he acted on various complex commercial disputes and regulatory investigations, with a particular emphasis on insolvency (acting for both creditors and insolvency practitioners) and banking disputes. Christopher has also served as an associate (clerk) for a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the Commercial Division.
Christopher is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Christopher was admitted to practice in Australia in 2019.
- London School of Economics and Political Science
(L.L.M., 2023) - Melbourne Law School
(J.D., honours, 2019) - The University of Melbourne
(Bachelor of Commerce, Finance and Management, 2015)
- Supreme Court of Victoria
- High Court of Australia
- Admitted in Australia only (practicing under the direct supervision of a member of The Bar of England and Wales)
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Associate to the Honorable Justice Delany:
- Supreme Court of Victoria, 2021-2022
- Ashen, Christopher & Bowden, Peter, ‘Equitable Liens – not quite universally distributed’(2021) 33(4) Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association Journal 36-39
- Ashen, Christopher & Bowden, Peter, ‘Australia’ in Newman, Peter (ed), Restructuring Review (Law Business Research Ltd, 14th ed, 2021)