Tony Christodoulides
Partner
Dispute Resolution
E: tony.christodoulides@kingsley-wood.com
Tony Christodoulides is a skilled litigator with over 20 years of experience, specialising in commercial disputes, fraud claims, and trust disputes. He represents clients in complex cases across the High Court in England, Gibraltar, and offshore jurisdictions. Tony is known for developing strategic solutions to achieve the best outcomes in challenging legal situations.
about
With over 20 years’ experience, practising in England and offshore, Tony Christodoulides is a versatile and tenacious litigator.
He represents corporate entities and institutions, individuals, trustees and beneficiaries in a wide range of commercial disputes, fraud claims and trust disputes. His role is to solve your most complex and challenging legal problems by identifying at an early stage the commercial and legal issues whilst evaluating critically the parties’ positions.
He will work with a client to develop the appropriate strategy to achieve the best outcome possible.
He conducts cases in all divisions of the High Court in England, the tax tribunal, the Supreme Court of Gibraltar and before domestic and international arbitration tribunals pursuant to a wide variety of arbitral rules. He oversees litigation also in a variety offshore jurisdictions of which he has extensive knowledge.
Recent Matters
my work
Tony specialises in complex commercial and cross-border disputes, with experience spanning breach of contract and international trade, business torts and commercial fraud, trust and fiduciary disputes (both onshore and offshore), and shareholder and boardroom conflicts. He is particularly skilled in the strategic management of multi-jurisdictional litigation, frequently acting in matters involving offshore structures and cross-border enforcement.
His representative cases include successfully defending an HMRC challenge against a Chinese business with a turnover exceeding £150 million — a matter that set a legal precedent in the First-Tier Tax Tribunal and is now cited in insolvency-related cases. Tony has also acted for beneficiaries in trust disputes, including a claim in Cyprus for breach of trust and interference with trust assets, securing a court order to suspend the trustee’s powers and appoint a receiver to pursue fiduciary claims against company directors in England.
He has represented clients in disputes between trustees and beneficiaries of self-administered pension schemes, advised on claims arising from misrepresentations in prospectuses, and managed shareholder and boardroom disputes leading to winding-up applications. In another significant matter, Tony successfully set aside a transaction involving improperly obtained mortgages, securing a worldwide freezing order to prevent asset dissipation.
Interest
about me
Tony is fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish, as well as conversational proficiency in Greek, which supports his work on international and cross-border matters.
Awards & Experience
my expertise
Tony is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a Solicitor-Advocate of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. He holds both an LLB (Law) and an LLM from the London School of Economics, reflecting his strong academic foundation and expertise in complex commercial and cross-border legal matters.
