Jeremy Evans

Jeremy Evans is BGI's managing partner and is a senior lawyer with over 16 years of experience handling complex environmental law, corporate accountability, commercial disputes, and competition law across the UK and international jurisdictions. He has been recognized as a key lawyer by The Legal 500 and is known for holding major corporations to account in landmark proceedings before the Commercial Court and the UK Business Courts.

Jeremy has extensive experience acting for large groups of claimants in environmental and corporate accountability litigation. He was a key member of the team on the BHP Group litigation — one of the largest group actions ever heard in England & Wales — successfully establishing English court jurisdiction before completing a 14-week liability trial brought by thousands of claimants affected by the Mariana dam disaster.

Alongside his group litigation work, Jeremy has experience across a range of commercial disputes including injunctions, intellectual property copyright claims, and breach of contract. Previously a partner at Pogust Goodhead, he led the firm's Competition Law team and served as Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (COLP), with firm-wide responsibility for SRA compliance, AML, and data protection.

Jeremy has also handled complex, high-value litigation at Leigh Day — ranked Band 1 for claimant group litigation by Chambers UK — including defective product cases. He trained and qualified at RMPI LLP, where he gained experience across personal injury, clinical negligence, defamation, and contract disputes.

He holds an LLB from the University of Kent, and completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London, with Distinction. 

Representative Matters

Jeremy's legal experience includes the following:

• Mariana and others v BHP— Acted for more than 620,000 Brazilian claimants in the group litigation against BHP arising from the 2015 Mariana dam disaster, one of the largest group actions ever heard in England & Wales; helped establish English court jurisdiction before completing the 14-week liability trial.
• Flavio Viegas and others v Cutrale— Acted for more than 1,500 Brazilian orange farmers in a cartel damages claim against the Cutrale group in the Commercial Court, including on jurisdictional challenges concerning individual defendants.
• DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip litigation— Acted for claimants at Leigh Day in one of the largest product liability group actions heard in the High Court, arising from allegedly defective DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implants.
• Lord McAlpine v BBC, ITV and Bercow— Acted for Lord McAlpine in defamation claims against the BBC, ITV and Sally Bercow following his false implication in historic child abuse allegations, resulting in public apologies and damages.