Christopher Brady
Partner, Hollyer Brady LLP

Telephone: (212) 706-0248
Fax: (646) 652-5336
Email: brady@hollyerbrady.com

Christopher Brady is a partner of Hollyer Brady LLP. He completed college and law school in a joint six-year program, receiving his bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in 1974 and his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1975. Mr. Brady has extensive experience in Commercial Litigation, Commercial Arbitration, Banking, and International Practice, fields in which he has practiced since 1975.

Initially, Mr. Brady practiced in the areas of commercial litigation involving securities litigation, accountants’ liability, and antitrust. The securities cases in which Mr. Brady participated included such names as Polaroid and Westinghouse. Mr. Brady has also worked with various accounting firms such as Price Waterhouse and Pannell Kerr Foster. His antitrust work was for the most part participation in the private predatory pricing cases against IBM, in which Mr. Brady’s role was to defend or examine lay or expert witnesses in the areas of financial analysis and forecasting.

More recently, Mr. Brady has developed a practice concentration representing foreign banks and government-owned companies. Bank clients include the Bank of China, CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited, Bank Negara Indonesia, and Bank Mandiri. Government-owned entities include not only some of the foregoing banks but also Garuda Airlines, China Guangzhou Corp., and White Dove Corp. This practice has resulted in Mr. Brady’s handling of an usually sizeable number of cases involving issues of foreign sovereign immunity, as well as cases involving international banking issues such as alleged bank fraud, letters of credit, wire transfers, international arbitration, foreign law and banking standards, and transnational banking.

Aside from litigation, Mr. Brady has counseled and represented banks and financial institutions in non-litigation and transactional matters, including: loan transactions, letters of credit, wire transfers, interbank agreements, trade finance, asset-based financing, personnel and employment issues, risk management, regulatory compliance, internal bank policies, and service agreements.

Mr. Brady is admitted to the bar of the states of New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Tenth and D.C. Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. He is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New Jersey State Bar Association.