Matthew Evans joined AlixPartners as a managing director in the firm’s Financial Advisory Services practice. Evans brings extensive experience in the global commodities and derivatives markets, valuation, trading, risk management practices and hedging. He will be based in the New York office and will work closely with the firm’s team in Washington, DC.

Evans joins AlixPartners from NERA Economic Consulting, where he served as senior vice president in the New York office. Prior to NERA, Evans was a director at Barclays Capital, where he was head of U.S. Commodities Valuations and New Business.

Evans’ experience includes litigation support in many high-profile commodity cases; providing expert testimony on commodities, derivatives, and high-frequency trading and serving as an expert in over a dozen major market manipulation inquiries, regulatory enforcement actions and trading investigations. He has presented findings to regulators in inquiries and enforcement actions brought by the SEC, FERC, CFTC, DOJ, FCA and the European Commission.

At AlixPartners, Evans will work closely with clients in need of assistance with complex trading data issues, regulatory investigations in financial markets, disputes in commodities and derivatives markets and litigation support in financial market cases.