BHP (BHP) and their Samarco joint venture to pay 170B reais (nearly $30B) in compensation for a deadly 2015 dam collapse in Brazil is expected to end more than 100 lawsuits against the companies and perhaps limit legal action abroad,

Almost nine years after a devastating dam collapse at a Brazilian iron ore mine, BHP Group Ltd. is set to defend allegations at a London trial that it’s liable to pay billions to compensate the communities hit hardest.

The trial for a class action lawsuit against Anglo-Australian multinational mining company BHP began on Monday in England, with 620,000 claimants seeking damages for the collapse of a tailings pond