Christopher Chandler is a New Zealand businessman with a net worth of $1’000’000’000. The Sovereign group of companies led by Christopher Chandler with his brother Richard invested in diverse industries, including telecommunications, electricity utilities, steel, oil and gas banking, and oil refining. Although the company saw a great expansion worldwide across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, the siblings decided in 2007 to discontinue the partnership. Christopher went on to invest in the multi-billion private dollar investment firm Legate, which puts money into companies in developing countries as well as the capital markets. Christopher’s firm purchased its building In the Dubai International Finance Center In April 2012. He comes right after his brother on New Zealand’s list of the richest people for 2013 and is listed as the third wealthiest person in the country.