Christopher Lyons is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s Nashville and Wilmington offices, and manages the Wilmington office. He focuses his practice on representing institutional and individual investors in merger-related class action litigation and in complex securities litigation.
Lyons has been a significant part of litigation teams that have achieved substantial recoveries for investors. Notable Delaware cases that Lyons has co-led include Bioverativ (Goldstein v. Denner) ($124 million recovery), Good Technology ($52 million – about 1.5 times the consideration paid to common stockholders in the challenged private-company merger), Blackhawk Network Holdings ($29.5 million), and The Fresh Market (Morrison v. Berry) ($27.5 million recovered). Lyons has also been part of teams litigating federal securities cases that led to substantial recoveries, including Envision ($177.5 million), CoreCivic (Grae v. Corrections Corporation of America) ($56 million recovered), and Nissan ($36 million). His pro bono work includes representing individuals who are appealing denial of necessary medical benefits by TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program), through the Tennessee Justice Center.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers | 2026 | Complex Securities, M&A Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers | 2025 | Complex Securities, M&A Litigation |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers | 2024 | Complex Securities, M&A Litigation |
| Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2023 | Plaintiff Securities, Financial Litigation |
Both during and before his time at Robbins Geller, Lyons has litigated extensively in Delaware courts, having tried cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Before joining Robbins Geller, Lyons practiced at a prominent Delaware law firm, where he mostly represented corporate officers and directors defending against breach of fiduciary duty claims in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in the Delaware Supreme Court. Before that, he clerked for Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Lyons now applies the expertise he gained from those experiences to help investors uncover wrongful conduct and recover the money and other remedies to which they are rightfully entitled.
Lyons has been named a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon and has been included in the 500 X - The Next Generation Lawdragon guide. Lyons earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College, with Distinction in International Political Economy and a minor in Asian Studies. Lyons earned his Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served on the Vanderbilt Law Review and presented briefing and argument to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces as part of the Appellate Litigation Clinic.