Chris Humphries is one of the founding directors of Stuarts Walker Hersant Humphries, Attorneys-at-Law, in the Cayman Islands where he is the head of the specialist investment funds team. Chris has registered several hundred mutual funds and frequently advises on regulatory and compliance issues involving funds, investment managers and fund administrators. Such advice includes the restructuring of funds, redemption payments and restrictions as well as the use of side pockets or special purpose vehicles for illiquid assets, and investor communications and disputes.

Chris has established investment managers and fund administrators in the Cayman Islands and advises on their respective regulatory regimes. He has extensive experience in all types of fund structures including master feeder and fund of fund structures as well as the establishment of complex fund platforms using exempted companies and/or partnerships and the use of segregated portfolio companies. As listing agent to the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange Chris has listed several investment funds. Chris has a broad experience on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions for private and listed clients, including mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate finance, commercial agreements and insurance securitizations. Prior to joining Stuarts in 2004, Chris was at the London office of Kendall Freeman (now Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge), where he specialized in corporate insurance and regulatory related matters.