Ravi Nayer

Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Speaker

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, including arbitration. He is also a driving force in BCLP’s ESG Litigation 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, Africa, UAE, US, Caribbean and India.

Ravi is currently advising on the shareholder class action against Glencore Plc which has recently been highlighted in the Chambers and Partners Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2025: Global-Wide for ESG Risk (Law Firms).

Ravi also heads a market leading practice advising clients on the design and implementation of private-sector ADR 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. He formerly advised the UK Prime Minister and other senior politicians on the British Labour Party’s relationship with India and British Indians.

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 civil litigation funding and class actions in the UK.