Chris Evans

Practice Summary

Chris Evans is an Equity Shareholder at Gupta Evans and Ayres with a focus on the firm's business and real estate litigation practice. Chris has extensive experience in California state and federal courts and specializes in representing individuals, businesses and business owners, real estate buyers, sellers, title insurers, developers, commercial landlords and tenants, brokers, agents, escrow agents, and property managers in all aspects of business and real estate litigation. Chris focuses largely on business disputes between owners or principals of businesses, often where one owner is alleged to have wronged the other, or simply when the owners are just tired of one another and want out of the business. Where an individual has been the victim of his or her business partner's fraudulent and wrongful conduct, including siphoning of funds, fiduciary duty breaches, breach of contract, concealment or misrepresentations pertaining to the joint business venture, and other wrongful conduct often requiring the need for a complex forensic accounting. Conversely, Chris defends individuals and business owners that have been accused of such fraudulent and wrongful conduct. Other business matters handled by Chris include securities litigation, trade secret litigation, investment disputes and shareholder litigation. Chris also handles a variety of real estate matters that include real estate purchase and sale litigation, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, disputes between co-owners of real property, partition actions, as well as general real estate contract disputes involving specific performance, breach, and other enforcement matters.