Ravi Nayer
Ravi Nayer
Ravi Nayer
Biography
Ravi is a partner in the Business and Commercial Disputes team based in London. His practice focuses on complex, high stakes commercial and group litigation. He is also a driving force in BCLP’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Class Actions practice. Ravi represents some of the UK’s largest financial services institutions, including asset managers, insurers, hedge funds and pension funds, in litigation related to their investments. He routinely handles cases with an international dimension and has extensive experience across a wide range of jurisdictions, including the UK, UAE, US, Caribbean and India.
Ravi is currently representing one of the UK’s largest asset managers in a ground-breaking, high profile claim against one of the world’s largest globally diversified natural resources companies. The case is being managed together with claims brought by various major asset managers and institutional investors. This group litigation, publicly valued at over £1 billion, is at the forefront of shareholder actions in this jurisdiction and listed as one of the most closely watched High Court cases of 2024.
His extensive experience includes creating joint defence and novel litigation cooperation agreements for peer institutions in some of the UK’s largest multi-party actions, such as the RBS Rights Issue Litigation. In addition to advising on the merits and conduct of securities class actions and regulatory enforcement, Ravi is frequently called upon to provide guidance on governance policies and procedures related to noteholder litigation, securities class actions and related fiduciary duties.
Ravi also heads a market leading practice advising clients on the design and implementation of private-sector compensation schemes, also known as redress schemes. In recent years, he has spearheaded several high profile initiatives in the UK arising from alleged mass torts, including the Construction Workers’ Compensation Scheme, the Manchester City Survivors’ Scheme, Windrush, and the first ICO approved data compensation scheme in the UK.
Ravi is renowned for his exceptional client service skills. For two years, he was seconded to one of the UK's largest FTSE 100 asset managers and insurers as its Global Head of Disputes. This experience provides him with invaluable insight into the challenges of bringing and defending proceedings from the perspective of in-house counsel.
Ravi champions diversity in the workplace and is frequently invited to speak at industry events. He served as the Chair of the Board of London’s largest mental health charity and interned at the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think tank. Most recently, he has partnered with the founders and board of the Big Issue to campaign for an Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. He also advises members of the Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee.
Ravi has been awarded numerous scholarships by The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and has taught on the BCL/MJur at the University of Oxford, where he also convened the Law Faculty’s Procedural Justice and Evidence Discussion Group, including undertaking in-depth research of comparative class action methodologies and reform, most recently partnering with Professors Adrian Zuckerman and Andrew Higgins on reform of litigation funding and class actions in the UK.
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Admissions
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England and Wales (barrister)
Related Practice Areas
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Business & Commercial Disputes
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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Class Actions & Mass Torts
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ESG Litigation
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Energy Transition
Experience
Example litigation Ravi has worked on in recent years for both claimants and defendants include:
- Aabar Holdings S.À.R.L & Others v Glencore PLC & Others (s90 and s90A FSMA claim relating to misstatements to market in the purchase, holding and selling of Glencore Plc shares)
- TVZ & Ors v Manchester City Football Club (negotiated, designed and administered the Manchester City Football Club Survivors’ Scheme)
- Canary Wharf Finance II Plc v Deutsche Trustee Company Ltd and others (advice to T1 noteholder in respect of disputed spens clause payment arising from disposal of 10 Upper Bank Street) Volkswagen NOx Emissions Group Litigation (advice to hedge funds backing VW claims)
- Re Al Rayan Bank PLC (injunction to winding up petition)
- NMC Healthcare Limited (in Administration) (claims arising out of the collapse of the NMC Healthcare group)
- Emerald Pasture Designated Activity Company & Ors v Cassini SAS & Anor (claims brought by a group of hedge funds relating to failure to comply with the Senior Facilities Agreement and French insolvency safeguard procedures)
- Lloyd v Google LLC (advice in respect of CPR rule 19.6 procedure)
- RBS Rights Issue Litigation (acting for a group of senior insurers and pension funds on coordination of s90 FSMA claim relating to loss of value of issued shares)
- FCA Enforcement of FTSE 100 product provider in respect of £3.5bn of structured deposit products
- Maddox RP LLP v Grey GR Limited Partnership (partnership claim against a large private pension fund regarding the purchasing of assets)
- Windrush Compensation Scheme (appointed adviser to the Independent Person by the Home Office)
- Prismall v Google UK Ltd & Anor (data claim under CPR rule 19.8 procedure)
- Bugsby Property LLC v LGIM Commercial Lending Ltd & Anor (claim arising from the alleged breach of a non-compete agreement)
- Alan Shearer v Suffolk Life (claim for breaches of COBS and common law claims against a SIPP company for failed investments placed in the SIPP)
- Various Claimants v McAlpine & Ors (claims against a consortia of major UK construction companies for alleged blacklisting of workers, coordination agreement, scheme development agreement and design and administration of redress scheme)
- Medenta Finance Ltd v Hitachi Capital (UK) Plc (injunction and expedited trial concerning trade restraint)
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