Drew Evans advises clients on strategy and delivers expert testimony in complex reorganizations, mass torts, and insurance disputes.

Summary

Andrew R. Evans is a Partner at Bates White and served as the Practice Chair of Mass Torts Practice for six years. He is a CFA charter holder and a recognized expert who specializes in legacy liability valuation, financial risk assessment, and insurance allocation. Drew brings more than 20 years of experience to advising clients and providing expert analysis on mass torts, (re)insurance coverage, alternative risk transfer transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and financial valuation matters.

Drew has authored expert reports and provided expert testimony in contract disputes, state insurance proceedings, federal bankruptcy reorganizations, alternative dispute resolutions, arbitrations, and mediations. He provides expertise for corporate valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures and regularly helps parties resolve disputes in bankruptcy and insurance coverage matters involving asbestos, environmental losses, sexual abuse claims, medical devices, defective products, and other mass torts. Drew has dealt with exposures ranging from the low millions to multiple billions of dollars. He also advises businesses, insurers, corporate boards, and other stakeholders on strategies to achieve global resolution of tort liabilities through mass settlements, reorganizations, and transactions.

Drew earned the Lexology Client Choice Award for Insurance and Reinsurance Expert Witnesses in the United States for three consecutive years (2024–2026). In 2025, Lexology named him a Global Elite Thought Leader, and since 2024 he has appeared on the Lexology Index list (formerly Who’s Who Legal) of leading insurance and reinsurance expert witnesses.

Drew started his economic consulting career at Bates White as a consultant in 2003. Having benefited from the firm’s culture of investment in its people and organic growth model, he is passionate about mentoring the next generation of talent at the firm.

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AB, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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