LFJ Community Spotlight: Rocco Pirozzolo, Managing Director and Director of Underwriting, Harbour Underwriting Limited Rocco Pirozzolo has been the underwriting director of Harbour Underwriting Limited since its incorporation and is also its managing director. He is a solicitor who has spent over two decades developing and providing insurance for a wide variety of legal disputes brought around the world. Apart from being a seasoned underwriter, he has also been a director in the investment team of Harbour Litigation Funding and so has vast experience of complex litigation risks. Rocco is one of the leading figures in the dispute resolution community. Since 2003, he has served on numerous forums and Working Parties of the Civil Justice Council, a statutory body responsible for overseeing and modernising the civil justice system. He has also been the Chair of The Association of British Insurers’ Legal Expenses Committee. Rocco is named in Band 1 as a Leading Individual in the Litigation Insurance Underwriters UK section of Chambers and Partners Litigation Support guide 2024 and also included in Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance. He is the general editor of The Law Society’s Litigation Funding Handbook and the author of several of its chapters, including that on dispute insurance. He is also the co-author of the chapter on legal expenses insurance in the practitioners’ textbook Friston on Costs. Rocco has been instructed over the years as an expert on dispute insurance, including by The Law Society in its intervention in a landmark case heard before the Supreme Court in Coventry v Lawrence [2015] UKSC50. Company Name and Description: Harbour Underwriting Ltd Company Website: https://lnkd.in/ebc9fsyk Year Founded: 2016 Headquarters: 4th Floor, 8 Waterloo Place, London England, SW1Y 4BE Area of Focus: Commercial dispute insurance Member Quote: “Litigation funders are sophisticated users of commercial dispute insurance. Even though they may well be confident of the prospects of the case they are funding succeeding, they know only too well how disputes can unexpectedly and inexplicably ‘take a turn’ for the worst and so they value having commercial dispute insurance in place from the outset.” https://lnkd.in/eH-q4Xsk #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #litfin #legalfinance #legalfunding #commercialdisutes #litigationinsurance
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Legal Funding Journal is the premier resource covering news and events taking place within the global legal funding sector The LFJ community includes the leading funders, advisors, law firms, NPEs, investors and corporate counsels from throughout the global legal funding community, who rely on LFJ as their go-to resource to stay abreast of the latest news and events taking place in the growing legal funding sector, including case developments, funding activity, governance, innovation, people moves, and more, including: -Knowledge Management and helping their teams stay abreast of the latest news and events taking place in the growing legal funding sector, including case developments, funding activity, governance, innovation, people moves, and more. Members receive daily news alerts, enjoy premium access to gated content and are able to leverage our 6-years of archived articles, posts, interviews and podcasts to ensure that they and their teams remain the smartest minds in the room when it comes to all things lit fin. -Thought Leadership by gaining access to content produced by some of the leading subject matter experts in the legal funding space. Additionally, LFJ members are provided with the opportunity to contribute original content and share their thought leadership throughout our global community. These opportunities can take the form of 1:1 interviews, spotlights, long-form articles or podcast features. -Access to the most exclusive community of global legal funding executives through event participation, informal introductions, and more. Legal Funding Journal is a portfolio company of ArgyleRoad Holdings, LLC.
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AALF Welcomes Three New Associate Members In a series of posts on LinkedIn over the last week, The The Association of Litigation Funders of Australia (AALF) announced that it has welcomed Ebury, Sedgwick, and Sapere as its newest Associate Members. With the addition of these three new members, AALF now boasts a total of 18 Associate Members in addition to its eight Funder Members. https://lnkd.in/emWDFbVx #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #litfin #legalfinance #legalfunding
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DOJ “Actively Considering” Filing a Statement of Interest in Burford Capital’s $16B Argentina Case In the world of litigation funding cases with geopolitical implications, there can be few more significant than the ongoing dispute between Burford Capital and Argentina over the enforcement and collection of the $16 billion YPF award. An article in the Buenos Aires Times covers the news that the United States Department of Justice sent a letter to US District Judge Loretta Preska asking the Manhattan court to delay ruling on Burford Capital’s request for the court to order Argentina to turn over its 51% interest in YPF. The reason for this requested delay, is that the US government is “actively considering whether to file a Statement of Interest with respect to the pending motion for an injunction and turnover.” https://lnkd.in/eiSz2tZ9 #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #litfin #legalfunding #legalfinance
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Analysing the Litigation Finance Marketplace The contentious debate over future regulation of the litigation finance market tends to primarily focus on the impact of outside funding on the legal system or on individual cases, a new academic paper looks at the issue through a broader lens, arguing that ‘litigation finance generally promotes marketplace efficiency and should be encouraged.’ In a forthcoming paper for the Southern California Law Review, Suneal Bedi and William Marra provide a new outlook on the debate over the regulation of third-party litigation funding. Bedi and Marra explain that their article ‘reframes the debate about litigation finance’, broadening the conversation from the effects of outside capital of the legal system, to an examination of ‘how litigation finance affects competition not only in the courtroom but also in the marketplace’. https://lnkd.in/e2eTiJd9 #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #legalfinance #legalfunding #litfin #regulation
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Taking a Look at Recent Mass Torts Settlements In an LF Dealmakers panel titled “Getting Paid: A Breakdown of Recent Settlements”, Max Doyle, Chief Strategy Officer at Consumer Attorney Marketing Group, Inc. (CAMG) moderated a panel between Samuel Dolce, Esq., Vice President at The Milestone Foundation , Jennifer Hoekstra, Partner at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC, Michael London, Founding Partner, at Douglas & London, P.C., and Eamon Walsh, President of North America at Advoc8se. https://lnkd.in/ezJd3w_s #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #litfin #legalfinding #legalfinance #masstorts
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Bay Point Closes $50 Million Capital Raise for Legal Investment Fund Bay Point Advisors, an Atlanta-based investment firm with a focus in niche private markets, is proud to announce the successful close of a $50 million capital raise for Bay Point Legal Fund II. This raise demonstrates Bay Point’s commitment to providing innovative investment solutions in the litigation finance sector. The newly raised capital will be deployed to identify, invest, and support allocations across several litigation strategies, including primary and secondary mass tort acquisition, mass arbitrations, and single event cases. Sean Coleman, Managing Director of Bay Point’s Legal Finance strategy, stated, “We are excited about the closing of Bay Point Legal Fund II. We have substantial capital to make an impact in the quickly evolving litigation finance vertical. Fund II will build on the creative and diversified, equity-type, mass tort investments made in Fund I while also expanding into new investment opportunities such as hybrid torts, abuse cases, mass arbitrations and single events. The fund has the potential to provide returns uncorrelated to equity markets, while also helping deliver equitable compensation to claimants who previously had limited avenues to justice.” https://lnkd.in/e5kRdhhc #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #legalfinance #legalfunding #litfin
Bay Point Closes $50 Million Capital Raise for Legal Investment Fund
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How Wall Street Money is Impacting the Mass Torts Sector Day one of this year’s LF Dealmakers event featured an entire day focused on one of the most prominent legal sectors within the litigation funding sphere: Mass Torts. In the keynote session, titled “Mass Torts at a Crossroads: Is Wall Street Money a Catalyst or Complication?”, Seth Meyer, Managing Partner at Meyer Law Firm PLC moderated a discussion between Steven Weisbrot, CEO of Angeion Group, and Harris Pogust, Founding Partner of Pogust Goodhead. The conversation focused on Wall Street money’s impact on the litigation funding sector. The key question being if the influx of capital is a catalyst or complication. https://lnkd.in/e3vXKdWE #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #legalfinance #legalfunding #litfin #masstorts Dealmakers Forums
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Bryant Park Capital Secures $100 Million in Capital for Deminor Bryant Park Capital (“BPC”), announced today that Deminor Recovery Services (“Deminor”), a leading privately-owned global litigation funder, recently closed on an approximately $100,000,000 committed senior credit facility and asset-backed financing with two leading U.S. based asset managers focused on the legal assets industry. Commenting on Deminor’s platform and performance, Joel Magerman, Bryant Park Capital’s Managing Partner added, “Deminor has generated significant returns extending through multiple market cycles as a leading player in the litigation funding sector, and this capital raise will provide an opportunity to significantly expand the operating leverage of the Deminor platform internationally.” https://lnkd.in/eYWbDvn9 #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #litfin #legalfinance #legalfunding
Bryant Park Capital Secures $100 Million in Capital for Deminor
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Travis Lenkner Rejoins Burford Capital in Newly Created Chief Development Officer Role Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces that Travis Lenkner has rejoined the company as a member of its Management Committee in the newly created role of Chief Development Officer. Based in London, Mr. Lenkner is focused on Burford’s future and its ongoing transformation of the legal industry. His responsibilities involve identifying and executing strategic initiatives that drive growth and align with the company’s long-term objectives, and his areas of focus include law firm equity investments, the alternative delivery of legal services to corporate and individual clients, and legal tech, including AI. https://lnkd.in/gnGdTW_M #litigationfinance #litigationfunding #legalfinance #legalfunding #litfin
Travis Lenkner Rejoins Burford Capital in Newly Created Chief Development Officer Role
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