Christopher B. Kende - Lawyer in New York, NY

Christopher B. Kende focuses his practice on international insurance, reinsurance, aviation and marine matters.

Christopher has more than 35 years of experience in handling major complex multinational litigation in the areas of insurance, reinsurance, environmental law, aviation and admiralty and maritime disputes. His experience includes virtually every aspect of pre-trial, trial and post-trial proceedings in state and federal courts around the country.

Christopher is a former member of the Foreign and Comparative Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and is past president of the Maritime Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and the Admiralty and Maritime Law Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA). He is currently the President of the Insurance Law Commission of the UIA and serves on the International Organizations, Conventions and Standards Committee of the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is also a member of the Aeronautics Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He is on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce Serge Bellanger Foundation which grants scholarships to deserving French and American business school students matriculated at the top business schools in France and the U.S.

Christopher has a combined B.A. and M.A. degree from Brown University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. He is fluent in French.