Insights and Analysis
AI-washing – when AI hype becomes a litigation risk
Christopher Hyde
Counsel Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Christopher is counsel in the London Tax group. He works on a broad range of corporate tax matters. He has significant experience of structured finance, capital markets and real estate investment transactions.
Christopher is noted as a "key lawyer" within the Hogan Lovells tax practice in the Legal 500 (UK 2022).
Representative experience
Acting for Credit Agricole CIB on the establishment of a £100m private securitisation warehouse facility for Sunsave, the UK’s first FCA-authorised solar subscription provider
Acting for SMBC and Equitix on their £1 billion lease financing of the Crossrail train fleet
Acting for an APAC REIT on its acquisition of a portfolio of 11 European and UK data centres for £670m
Acting for Landsec and M&G Real Estate on the launch of the Bluewater REIT
Acting for a major French financial institution on the acquisition of UK leasing companies owning water processing and shipping assets
Acting for Asahi on tax aspects of its £250 million acquisition of Fuller, Smith & Turner plc’s brewing business
Advising The Crown Estate on issues relating to their offshore energy portfolio, including the landmark 8GW Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4
Acting for a large club of senior lenders in relation to the provision of post-IPO facilities to the food travel group SSP
Advising Ares Management on the refinancing of Sykes Cottages and the acquisition of Forest Holidays
Credentials
Education
- BA Hons, Jesus College, University of Oxford, 2006
Publications
Insights and Analysis
24 March 2021