Chris Hale
Senior Partner, Travers Smith
Chris joined Travers Smith in 1983 and was made a partner in 1987. Chris became the firm’s Senior Partner on 1 July 2013 having been Head of Corporate since 2003. He founded the firm’s Private Equity Group, one of the constituent parts of Corporate, in 1996.
Chris has been a strong advocate of inclusion at Travers Smith and Chairs the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Board, which is responsible for co-ordinating and progressing what Travers Smith does to advance inclusion.
Chris also takes an active interest in education at both school and university levels, being a school governor, a regular participant in the Speakers for Schools programme, and both lectures and is a member of a number of committees at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.