James Evans

Call 1991(Gray's Inn); MA (Cantab); LLM (Lond)(Distinction) Clive Schmittoff prize for International Trade Law. Practising since October 1993.
Email: jevans@3vb.com

James Evans is an experienced practitioner advising and acting as counsel in commercial High Court litigation and in domestic and international arbitration. Areas of expertise include banking and finance, fraud, cross-border asset tracing and recovery and all aspects of arbitration.

He also acts as arbitrator. Recent arbitral appointments include acting as sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration concerning a significant investment in a Dubai company and as party-appointed arbitrator in international disputes governed by LCIA and ICC rules.

Recent instructions include acting for:

• Counterparties seeking to recover assets pledged as security for derivative transactions subject to ISDA Master Agreements.
• Defendants to claims of conspiracy and bribery arising out of alleged employment by a large Saudi Arabian group of companies.
• The Trustee of Lehman Brothers Inc. in relation to the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) Ltd and the recovery of client money.
• The Government of Zambia in various ICC arbitration disputes, and both Commercial Court and Chancery Division litigation in the High Court.

James has long been recommended in the legal directories as a leading junior in commercial dispute resolution and is described as a "great team player and a strong lateral thinker" in Chambers & Partners 2012. 

Professional Associations/Memberships

Member of COMBAR Executive committee and the COMBAR Africa committee

Member of LCIA

Member of ICC

Publications

Contributor to "Banks and Financial Crime, The International Law of Tainted Money", Oxford University Press (2008).

Contributor to Banking Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell, 1999, 2nd ed. 2005).