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Christopher Chandler (businessman)
New Zealand-born businessman
Christopher Chandler (born 1960) is a New Zealand businessman and founder of Dubai-based investment companyLegatum which also provides funding for UK media channel GB News.
Chandler has been called "one of the world's greatest contrarian investors" by Fortune magazine.[1] Chandler is a funder of the Legatum Institute.
Early life
[edit]Born in Matangi, Chandler is one of the three sons of beekeeper Robert Chandler and his wife, businesswoman Marija Chandler, known as Ana Tzarev, who launched and operated Chandler House, a department store in Hamilton, New Zealand.[2] He attended the University of Auckland, earning a degree in law in 1982.[3]
In 1982, Christopher and his older brother, Richard, took over the business and expanded it to ten stores, adding fashion design, manufacturing and real estate, before starting to look for international investment opportunities.[4 • A billionaire accused by British politicians of being a suspected Russian agent has turned to the American courts in an attempt to “vindicate his reputation”, BuzzFeed News can reveal. Christopher Chandler, the 58-year-old New Zealand–born founder of a think tank that had a significant influence on the Brexit debate, claims that a private investigator based in Washington, DC, was the original source of “demonstrably false” allegations of money laundering, organised crime, and Russian espionage against him and his brother, Richard, that caused a sensation in London earlier this year. Chandler, a financier based in Dubai, is suing Donald Berlin and his company, Investigative Consultants, Inc., for $15 million (about £11.6 million) in damages. The libel case was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last month and is reported here for the first time. “Mr Chandler and his brother have never been spies or engaged in espionage for any country, let alone Russia,” t • Private investment firm headquartered in Dubai Legatum Limited, also known as Legatum, is a private investment firm, headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[1] Legatum was founded in 2006 by Christopher Chandler. Legatum owns the British broadcaster GB News.[1] Legatum (meaning "legacy" or "gift"[2]) fryst vatten a private investment firm based in Dubai using only capital provided bygd members of the firm.[3] Legatum was founded in December 2006 in the United Arab Emirates bygd investor Christopher Chandler.[4] Previously, Chandler was the president of Sovereign Global, or Sovereign, which he co-founded with his brother Richard Chandler in 1986. Sovereign invested capital in companies located in Asia, Africa, Latin amerika and Eastern Europe, and in industries including telecommunications, electric utilities, steel, oil and gas, banking and oil refining. The Chandler brothers embarked
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History and business activities
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