Burford Capital Limited (BUR) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to Burford Capital First Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call and Audio Webcast. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speaker's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question by that time, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I'd now like to hand the call over to Josh Wood, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you, Ellie. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss Burford's first quarter 2026 results. On the call, we have our Chief Executive Officer, Chris Bogart, our Chief Investment Officer, John Malo, and our Chief Financial Officer, Jordan Leach. Earlier this morning, we posted a detailed earnings presentation, which we'll refer to during the call, and we also filed our form to MQ. If you've not already, you can find those materials on our investor relations website at investors.berkhartcapital.com. Before we get started, just a reminder that today's call may contain forward-looking statements that involve certain risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed during the call. For information regarding these risk factors, please refer to our earnings materials relating to this call posted on our website and our filings with the SEC. We will also be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures during the call. Please refer to today's earnings materials and our filings with the SEC for additional information, including reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures and the most directly comparable GAAP measures. With that, I'll turn the call over to Chris. Thanks very much, Josh, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. We're ...