John Evans

John joined LionFish as Senior Adviser in August 2023. He has over 32 years of experience as a solicitor working in private practice and currently acts as mediator and litigation consultant on a range of commercial disputes.

John qualified as a lawyer in 1981 at leading global law firm Ashurst and became Partner only a few years later. He has worked on, and had conduct of, an eclectic portfolio of cases ranging from breach of warranty claims to disputes involving banking and finance, negligence, trusts, oil and gas, aviation and more. Following his many years as a senior Litigation Partner at Ashurst – where he ended up practising for 26 years – John took a sabbatical to focus on wildlife conservation in Southern Africa. Some 18 months later, he returned to practice as Partner with Howrey, and then with Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) before becoming a CEDR-accredited Mediator and Litigation Consultant.

Internationally recognised, and formerly on the Board of the International Association of Defense Counsel, he has an extensive track record representing both claimants and defendants in complex business litigation impacting multiple industry sectors. He has frequently been at the cutting edge of developments in substantive law and procedure and has been repeatedly recognised in ‘Who’s Who Legal’ Directories of Business Lawyers and by Global Counsel 3000. He has also been described as ‘highly experienced and tough’ by Legal 500 and has time and again been commended for his ‘solution-driven approach’ (Chambers).