Gavin Beardsell is an Investment Manager based in the Sydney office of IMF Bentham.

Gavin has over twenty years' experience specialising in commercial litigation and class actions. Gavin was admitted to practise law in the UK in 1997 and gained valuable experience as a partner at the UK's largest insurance law firm, Berrymans Lace Mawer. He acted for several of the UK's leading insurers and their clients in relation to high value claims in the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal.

Since 2008, Gavin has practised in Australia, first as a partner at Gilchrist Connell and then as a Senior Consultant at Clyde & Co, where he acted for insurers and large corporations defending and advising on high profile class actions brought by shareholders, debenture holders and other investors in the Federal Court of Australia, and the Supreme Courts of NSW and Victoria.

Gavin has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Exeter University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Distinction) from the College of Law in England.