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Burford Capital enhances its team of experts
Burford Capital enhances its team of experts.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 3696T\n Burford Capital Limited\n 24 March 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AS CLIENT EXPECTATIONS FOR LEGAL FINANCE RISE,\nBURFORD ENHANCES ITS TEAM OF EXPERTS \n \n \n \n \n \n Global team grows; Key promotions and hires in London, Hong Kong and Houston\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 March 2021- \n \n Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law\n , today announces enhancements of its team of legal finance experts, including senior leader moves in London and new hires in Hong Kong and Houston. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christopher Bogart, CEO of Burford Capital, said\n \n , \"Just as Burford's $4.5 billion portfolio of legal finance assets continues to grow, so too does its high quality team. We have not only added resources and recognized achievement in our legal finance business, but we also continue to expand our robust finance, risk and compliance functions given our institutional quality offerings to investors.\"\n \n \n \n \n \n Growth and professionalization of the gold standard team focused on commercial litigation risk\n \n \n \n \n \n With 136 employees, Burford's team is the gold standard for quantifying and financing commercial litigation and arbitration risk worldwide:\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n 50% of Burford's team are lawyers, many of them veterans of AmLaw 100 and Global 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies.\n \n \n · \n Of those who joined in the last five years, the majority are focused on serving clients through Burford's core offerings (41%) as well as legal, compliance and finance functions (24%)-equipping Burford to give its clients the institutional quality processes they would expect of their corporate finance partners.\n \n \n · \n 50% of Burford's team are women, racial minorities or self-identify as LGBTQ.\n \n \n \n \n \n Burford's investment in its team reflects and reinforces what clients say matters most to them. According to the latest research on litigation finance, in-house and law firm lawyers choose legal finance partners on the basis of their access to significant and reliable capital, their reputation in the marketplace, the scale of their business and the quality of their teams. As a \n partner at an \n AmLaw 100 law firm put it, \n \"[Legal finance partners] help the legal teams see arou...