Christopher Ashen is an 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)