Brian Evans > Lanyon Bowdler > Shrewsbury, England > Lawyer Profile
Lanyon Bowdler Offices
CHAPTER HOUSE NORTH
ABBEY LAWN, ABBEY FOREGATE
SHREWSBURY
SY2 5DE
England
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Brian Evans
Work Department
Dispute resolution and mediation
Position
Managing partner and head of agriculture.
Experienced litigator used to dealing with many types of commercial disputes, including shareholder and partnership duties, agricultural disputes, contractual disputes and insolvency matters. Other sectors worked in include manufacturing, construction, health and social care and leisure.
Brian is a CEDR accredited mediator. Although his mediation practice encompasses a variety of commercial sectors and general civil litigation he has a particular interest in mediating disputes in the agricultural sector.
Career
Trained at Lanyon Bowdler; qualified 1994
Dispute resolution partner 1998; head of dispute resolution, head of agriculture 2015; managing partner 2016.
Languages
Welsh (conversational).
Education
Llanfyllin High School, Powys (1983-88)
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (1988-1991 MA (Cantab)
College of Law, Christleton (1991-92)
Solicitors’ Final Examination (First Class Honours)).
Leisure
Singing (St Chad’s Choir), composing, playing trumpet.
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Private client > Agriculture and estates
The first-class team at Lanyon Bowdler acts for numerous large agricultural and horticultural clients, in addition to landed estates. It is a NFU panel firm for Shropshire, Herefordshire and Staffordshire, and works closely with the NFU regionally. Practice head Brian Evans has particular expertise in the mediation of disputes involving agricultural property. Edward Nutting acts on a wide range of agricultural and commercial property matters. The agile team covers areas as diverse as renewable energy projects and professional negligence cases involving farmers as claimants, as well as employment matters. Andrew Pegg has built up a specialism in agricultural dispute resolution, while David Pugh assists with estate planning for farming clients.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment