Tom Evans

Tom Evans is part of Burford’s Europe based litigation finance and asset recovery teams, with responsibility for sourcing and managing litigation finance matters, including enforcement matters and working with judgment and award creditors, participants in insolvency situations, holders of non-performing loan debt and various other creditors and claimants.

Prior to joining Burford in 2016, Mr. Evans was a founding member of the English law disputes practice in Akin Gump’s London office. Previously, he was a litigator at Dewey & LeBoeuf and trained at Hogan Lovells. Mr. Evans' practice consisted of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes including litigation, arbitration and white-collar matters, with a particular focus on the telecommunications, energy/natural resources and financial services sectors. Mr. Evans has handled disputes in major common law jurisdictions including North America and the Caribbean as well as several countries in Africa, and has worked alongside local counsel in civil law countries, including throughout the Middle East.

Mr. Evans earned his BA from the University of Oxford and LPC/PgDL from BPP Law School.