
2ND ANNUAL
LF Dealmakers
europe
JUNE 23-25, 2025
Royal Lancaster LondoN
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About The Event
Advancing litigation finance
Experience the 2nd Annual LF Dealmakers Europe on June 23-25 at the Royal Lancaster London.
Following a highly successful debut in the European market, we are excited to return to London to bring together leaders in litigation finance, legal innovation, and cross-border dispute resolution from across Europe and beyond. This exclusive forum offers unmatched opportunities to engage with key decision-makers, explore emerging trends, and participate in highly productive 1-to-1 meetings — fostering meaningful connections and high-value partnerships in the rapidly expanding global litigation finance market.
This event will be co-located with the 2nd Annual IP Dealmakers Europe. Join us as we bring together the best LF Dealmakers and IP Dealmakers from across the globe for in-depth discussions, debate, and dealmaking.
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2025 PRELIMINARY agenda
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DAY ONE: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025
DAY TWO: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025
Speaker:
Hodge Malek KC, Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal (UK)
- Highlights, deals, awards and settlements shaping the market
- Changes in pricing, terms, timelines, capital and investor appetite
- Future predictions for litigation funding
Speakers:
- John McElroy, Partner, Fieldfisher (moderator)
- David Greene, Senior Partner, Commercial Disputes and Class Actions, Edwin Coe
- Rosie Ioannou, Managing Director, Fortress
- Jeremy Marshall, Chief Investment Officer, Winward
- How insurers, funders and law firms are working together
- DBAs, CFAs, hybrid agreements and more: Which products are gaining traction and why
- Contingent risk insurance: a passing trend or a permanent fixture?
Speakers:
- Verity Jackson-Grant, Head of Pricing, SImmons & Simmons (moderator)
- Tanya Lansky, Managing Director, LionFish
- Andrew Mutter, EVP, Contingent Risk, CAC Specialty
- Steven Rajavinothan, Director, Contingent and Litigation Risks & Head of ATE, Vale Insurance
- The tripartite relationship between funders, lawyers and class representatives
- Will excessive pricing cases come to an end?
- Control, reasonable returns and proceed distribution
Speakers:
- Chris Williams, Vice President, Bench Walk Advisors (moderator)
- Robert Marven KC, Barrister, 4 New Square Chambers
- Genevieve Quierin, Partner, Stephenson Harwood
Attendees can either book one-to-one meetings or continue the conversation in the networking area, where a selection of desserts will complement both structured roundtables and casual networking opportunities.
- Hot spot jurisdictions in Europe
- Opportunities in international disputes and arbitration
- The rise of mass torts opportunities in the U.S.
Speakers:
- Marc Barennes, Partner, Geradin Partners (France) (moderator)
- Eduardo Ayuela Zurita, Co-Founder & Head of Commercial Law, Corporate Disputes and Arbitration, Ayuela Jiménez (Spain)
- Isabelle Berger, Chief Investment Officer, Nivalion (Switzerland)
- Louis Moncheur de Rieudotte, Investment Manager, Arios (Belgium)
- Steve Nober, Founder & CEO, CAMG (USA)
- What’s driving the influx of foreign capital
- Different lenses on risk and return
- Going solo or co-funding?
Speakers:
- Matthew Lo, Director, Exton Advisors (UK) (moderator)
- Quirijn Bongaerts, Advocaat, Birkway (Netherlands)
- Sarah Johnson, Head of Litigation Investing, D. E. Shaw & Co. (USA)
- Elena Rey, Partner, Brown Rudnick (UK)
- Andrew Stulce, Director, Longford Capital (USA)
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM:
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilising our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.
DAY THREE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025
Speaker:
Susanne Augenhofer, Member of the Council & Co-Reporter of the Principles on Third Party Litigation Funding, European Law Institute (ELI) (Austria)
With litigation funding facing growing scrutiny worldwide, concerns are mounting and opinions are polarising. Will regulation kill the market – or strengthen it? Ahead of the CJC’s final report, this session will dissect the latest legal and political developments, addressing key questions on the future.
Speakers:
- Polly O’Brien, Partner, Schulte Roth + Zabel (moderator)
- Susan Dunn, Chair, Association of Litigation Funders
- Kenny Henderson, Partner, CMS
- Ravi Nayer, Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- Making it work: Balancing and protecting the interests of all stakeholders
- Where do things fall through the cracks?
- What to do when relationships break down
Speakers:
- Zachary Krug, Managing Director, NorthWall Capital (moderator)
- Andrew T. Clarke, Chairman, Emissary Partners & Former GC, ExxonMobil
- Rhea Gupta, Legal and Policy Consultant, Class Representatives Network
- Andrew Hogan, Barrister, Kings Chambers
- Natasha Pearman, Partner, Milberg
- How funders are adapting funding strategies and why
- Which regions are gaining a competitive advantage
- Opportunities in parallel litigations
Speakers:
- Louise Trayhurn, Co-Founder & Director, Crescient (UK) (moderator)
- Becca Hogan, Partner, Signature Litigation (UK)
- Gian Kull, Regional Portfolio Manager – UK, Omni Bridgeway (UK)
- Andreas Ruster, Partner, Litigation, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Germany)
- Paul de Servigny, Fund Manager, IVO Capital (France)
- Using funding to stay competitive
- Litigation finance as a risk and cost mitigation tool
- Building a contingent and plaintiff side practice
Speakers:
- Ana Carolina Salomão Queiroz, Founding Partner, Montgomery (Belgium) (moderator)
- Andrew Bullion, Partner, Hausfeld (UK and Sweden)
- Fred Fabricant, Managing Partner, Fabricant LLP (USA)
- Porfirio Moreira, Partner, Sousa Ferro (Portugal)
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM:
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilising our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.
2025 SPEAKERS
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2025 keynote SPEAKERS

Hodge Malek KC
Chairman
Competition Appeal Tribunal
UK
Hodge Malek KC
CHAIRMAN, COMPETITION APPEAL TRIBUNAL
Hodge Malek KC was called to the Bar in 1983 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. He is a member of 3 Verulam Buildings in London. He has a successful and heavyweight practice covering many areas of commercial law and dispute resolution including banking and financial services, fraud, professional disciplinary cases, energy, insurance and reinsurance and procurement. He is the General Editor of the leading book on the law of evidence, Phipson on Evidence (20th edition, 2022), and the joint author of Disclosure (6th edition, 2024), both of which are often cited in judgments in common law jurisdictions. He is also a contributor to Mithani, Directors Disqualification (Human Rights chapters), and various volumes of Atkins Court Forms (Financial Services, Human Rights, Disclosure and Information Requests and Administrative Court). He was a member of the Commercial Court working party chaired by Lord Justice Cresswell on Electronic Disclosure and the working party on disclosure in the Business and Property Courts. Both as a judge and barrister he has extensive experience in dealing with all issues of disclosure.
Hodge is Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and deputy High Court Judge. He sits as a Recorder in both civil and criminal cases. He is a Deemster (High Court Judge) in the Isle of Man and a Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

Susanne Augenhofer
Member of the Council
European Law Institute (ELI)
AUSTRIA
Susanne Augenhofer
PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK, SENIOR RESEARCH SCHOLAR IN LAW AND VISITING PROFESSOR, YALE LAW SCHOOL & MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL, EUROPEAN LAW INSTITUTE (ELI)
Susanne Augenhofer has been a full Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria since 2020. During the academic year 2024/2025 she serves as a Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School where she also graduated from the LL.M. program and has been a Senior Research Fellow since 2021. In addition, she is a fellow at the Civil Justice Center at the NYU School of Law and in spring 2025 a visiting professor at LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli).
She currently serves as a Member of the Council of the ELI as well as a Co-Chair of the ELI Austrian Hub and as a member of the Advisory Group on Consumer Policy of the EC. Her research areas include transnational consumer law as well as questions of (aggregated) enforcement. She was the co-reporter of the Principles on Third Party Litigation of the European Law Institute, which were published in October 2024.
2025 FEATURED SPEAKERS

EDUARDO AYUELA ZURITA
Co-Founder
Ayuela Jiménez
SPAIN
Eduardo Ayuela Zurita
CO-FOUNDER, AYUELA JIMÉNEZ
Partner in charge of the Arbitration practice at the law firm with extensive experience
in domestic and international arbitration, both as arbitrator and counsel, in proceedings
administered by the ICC and CIAM-CIAR, as well as major Spanish arbitral centers (CEA,
CAM, and CIMA).
Specializes in civil and commercial disputes involving contract law, joint ventures, and
post-M&A, particularly in the energy, hospitality, and mining sectors. Experience
representing claimants and defendants in emergency, expedited, and ordinary
proceedings. Served as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator.
Associate professor at prestigious institutions, including IE University (Advocacy in
Arbitration).

Marc Barennes
Partner
Geradin Partners
FRANCE
Marc Barennes
PARTNER, GERADIN PARTNERS
Marc Barennes is a partner with Geradin Partners, a leading European competition law firm with offices in five capital cities. Before joining Geradin Partners and working in private practice, he worked for the European Commission (DG Competition) and the Court of the justice of the EU for 17 years. He is a pioneer in France in funded collective actions. He currently leads six funded collective actions and his firm is involved in more than 12 actions before the French, English and Dutch jurisdictions. Marc lectures on litigation funding, class actions and competition and EU litigation at Sciences Po Paris, the leading French School of law. He is a member of the Paris and New York bars.

ISABELLE BERGER
Chief Investment Officer
Nivalion
SWITZERLAND
Isabelle Berger
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, NIVALION
Isabelle Berger serves as Nivalion’s Chief Investment Officer, overseeing the origination, underwriting, and management of the firm’s investments. She also chairs Nivalion’s Investment Committee. Isabelle is consistently recognized in leading legal directories and is top ranked by Chambers in the category Litigation Support. Prior to joining Nivalion, she spent over a decade in private practice, specializing in dispute resolution at leading Swiss law firms Homburger and Schellenberg Wittmer.

Quirijn Bongaerts
Founding Partner
Birkway
NETHERLANDS
Quirijn Bongaerts
FOUNDING PARTNER, BIRKWAY
Quirijn Bongaerts is one of the founding partners of Birkway, an Amsterdam-based litigation boutique with a strong focus on mass claims and collective redress. Quirijn litigates on behalf of representative groups in relation to the diesel emissions scandal, business to business claims against power supplier Vattenfall, and against listed entities in relation to shareholder claims. Some of these cases have led to landmark judgments, including the first ever appointment of a lead claimant in a collective damages claim in the Netherlands and a ground-breaking court decision binding all class members to the contingency fee owed to the lead claimant. He has also acted as counsel to shareholder representative groups in well-known securities litigation situations, such as Fortis and, Steinhoff, matters which led to ground-breaking settlements.

Andrew Bullion
Partner
Hausfeld
UK & SWEDEN
Andrew Bullion
PARTNER, HAUSFELD
Andrew Bullion is a founding partner and divides his time between London and Sweden, where he heads the Stockholm office and has built Hausfeld’s successful Nordic practice since 2006. He brings two decades of experience of successfully litigating complex competition matters and has led proceedings before the UK High Court and Competition Appeals Tribunal and in several additional European jurisdictions – including the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Sweden – as well as the US Federal District Courts. Andrew has represented some of the world’s most recognisable undertakings, including leading automakers and manufacturing, retail, and logistics companies, as well as national and municipal government entities.

ANDREW T. CLARKE
Chairman
Emissary Partners
UK
Andrew T. Clarke
Chairman, Emissary Partners

SUSAN DUNN
Chair
Association of Litigation Funders
UK
SUSAN DUNN
CHAIR, ASSOCIATION OF LITIGATION FUNDERS & CO-FOUNDER, HARBOUR
Susan is one of the most experienced and well-known professionals in the litigation funding sector.
A pioneer of litigation funding in the UK, Susan has been sourcing and investing for over 15 years’ and during this time has provided significant input to the development of public policy.
Susan was a founding member of the industry’s self-regulating body, the Association of Litigation Funders, and was appointed Chair in September 2019. Susan also sits on the board of the International Legal Finance Association, which launched in September 2020.

Fred Fabricant
Managing Partner
Fabricant LLp
USA
Fred Fabricant
Managing Partner, Fabricant LLp
Alfred R. Fabricant (Fred) is an experienced first chair trial lawyer who focuses his practice on patent, copyright, trademark and unfair competition matters.
Fred has litigated patent infringement cases in district courts throughout the United States for both patent owners and defendants including cases in the most active courts in Delaware, Texas, California, Illinois and Florida. His cases have involved a large variety of technologies including automotive, semiconductor, audio processing, LED lighting and displays, smartphone handsets, medical devices, electronic ratings systems, copy protection and anti-piracy technology, NFC and radio frequency identification systems, robotic systems, memory and storage devices, software, internet-related method and system patents, universal remote control devices, and optical systems and methods. According to “The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners” published by the IAM1000: “clients say they cannot imagine working with anyone better, hailing (Fabricant’s) outstanding skills of presentation and persuasion in the courtroom.”
Fred has represented clients in patent matters before the International Trade Commission. He has also appeared in more than 100 inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. Fred has argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Second and Fourth Circuits where he has represented both appellants and appellees in a variety of matters.
Since 2008. Fred has handled a large number of cases that have been financed, in whole or in part, by litigation funders. He has also represented litigation funds as outside diligence counsel and is frequently recommended by litigation funders to claimants for both lead counsel representation in litigation as well as for IPR work before the PTAB.
In addition to his litigation experience,
Fred routinely acts as a legal counselor and advisor in the negotiation and drafting of patent, trademark and copyright license agreements, joint venture and funding agreements, and other business contracts. Fred also specializes in IP due diligence, freedom to operate analyses and strategies for the management and monetization of IP portfolios, a topic on which he has lectured extensively over the past decade. He advises clients on portfolio acquisitions and development, licensing and enforcement strategies, and litigation financing options.
Education
The University of Illinois Chicago Law School, J.D. (with highest distinction)
The University of Miami (magna cum laude)
Admissions
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- €Arizona

DAVID GREENE
Senior Partner, Commercial Disputes & Class Actions
Edwin Coe
UK
David Greene
SENIOR PARTNER, COMMERCIAL DISPUTES & CLASS ACTIONS
David Greene was a pioneer of class actions and funding in the UK in mass tort 30 years ago and financial claims more recently. His practice in the CAT goes back 20 years to its foundation. He is a former President of the Law Society, also of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and is currently co-President of the Collective Redress Lawyers Association. He has also served on the Rules Committee and the Civil Justice Council.

RHEA GUPTA
Legal and Policy Consultant
Class Representatives Network
UK
Rhea Gupta
LEGAL AND POLICY CONSULTANT, CLASS REPRESENTATIVES NETWORK
Rhea Gupta is the Legal and Policy Officer at the Class Representatives Network, an NGO founded by Walter Merricks CBE to assist and support class representatives leading collective actions in the UK. Rhea sits on the Consultative Group for the Civil Justice Council’s ongoing consultation on Third Party Litigation Funding, and leading an empirical research project on class representatives’ experiences with third-party litigation funders. Her publications include a recent research report titled ‘Selecting Litigation Funders and Negotiating Funding Agreements’ (September 2024); reference to this report was made before the Competition Appeal Tribunal in the second CPO hearing in Christine Riefa v Apple and Amazon [2025] CAT 5.
Rhea is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (BA Hons, Classics), Queen Mary University of London (LLB Hons) and the University of Oxford (BCL, Distinction). She is an incumbent Judicial Assistant in the Court of Appeal 2025-2026.

KENNY HENDERSON
Partner
CMS
UK
Kenny Henderson
PARTNER, CMS
Kenny Henderson is an experienced litigator who represents sophisticated and blue-chip clients in high stakes disputes, frequently with a multi-jurisdictional element. He is solutions-oriented, and deploys litigation strategies tailored to deliver commercial objectives. He has particular expertise in regulated sectors, including pharmaceutical and technology claims. He is particularly active in group/class actions and antitrust matters and many of the cases he advises on are funded.
Kenny assists clients with early stage litigation risk, including arising from regulatory scrutiny and new procedural mechanisms or changes to substantive law across Europe. He is also active in policy work including as a member of the Consultation Group for the civil Justice Council’s review into litigation funding.

Andrew Hogan
Barrister
Kings Chambers
UK
Andrew Hogan
BARRISTER, KINGS CHAMBERS
Andrew is an expert in the fields of costs and litigation funding.
His blog on issues of costs and litigation funding can be found at www.costsbarrister.co.uk
What Chambers and Partners (2025) says:
“Andrew Hogan is an excellent tactician, who is really good at running and fighting cases. He can tie people in knots.”
“A junior with the gravitas of a silk, he takes brave points and wins on them. He’s a calm, considered, reassuring counsel, who is excellent to work with.”
“Andrew is commonly described as the best costs barrister outside London, and some would say the best full stop for his level of call. He’s a very good advocate.”

Becca Hogan
Partner
Signature Litigation
UK
Becca Hogan
PARTNER, SIGNATURE LITIGATION
Becca has a wide range of experience in commercial disputes with a focus on banking and financial services. She specialises in high value complex matters including both High Court litigation, in particular securities litigation, as well as arbitration. Becca also advises on regulatory matters including regulatory investigations involving the FCA.
Becca’s recent experience includes acting for institutional claimants in a securities litigation against Barclays Bank, acting for a global car manufacturer, defending it as part of the high profile Pan-NOx Diesel Emissions Group Litigation, acting for a large institutional and retail claimant group litigation against the Royal Bank of Scotland and its former directors, and acting for the former management of a Thai renewable energy company in a $2bn dispute defending allegations of fraud and conspiracy.
Becca is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in The Legal 500 UK 2025 Guide for banking litigation. In the latest edition of the Guide, she is described as a “calm, composed and confidence-inspiring presence in a team” and as a “standout junior partner“. Becca is also described as “detail-oriented and very switched on“. Previous Guides comment that Becca is “exceptional“, with an “excellent grasp of the detail”. She is further praised as a “safe and skilled pair of hands.” She has also been described as “stellar“, “calm and strategic“, and has been praised for her “good instincts” and “commercial approach”.
Before joining Signature Litigation, Becca was an Associate at Clyde & Co where she trained and qualified in September 2010. Becca also has experience working in the FSA’s enforcement division and at Goldman Sachs’ Compliance Division while on secondment.

ROSIE IOANNOU
Managing Director
Fortress
UK
Rosie Ioannou
MANAGING DIRECTOR, FORTRESS
Rosie Ioannou is a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group. In this role she provides bespoke funding solutions for high value commercial litigation and portfolio financing solutions for law firms and their clients. Rosie has experience both in private practice and as funder in a wide range of disputes both in the UK and internationally. She has particular expertise in funding large complex matters, including group claims and competition related disputes. A solicitor of the Courts of England and Wales, before joining Fortress, Rosie worked at Vannin Capital. Prior to that she worked in the litigation department at Allen & Overy in London, where she trained and qualified.

Verity Jackson-Grant
Head of Pricing
Simmons & Simmons
UK
Verity Jackson-Grant
HEAD OF PRICING, SIMMONS & SIMMONS
Verity Jackson-Grant is the Global Head of Pricing at Simmons & Simmons. Her passion lies in working with clients to create alternative fee arrangements outside of the hourly rate. She has particular experience in sourcing and structuring risk transfer arrangements for disputes combining law firm risk retainers with litigation funding and ATE insurance. Prior to creating the Pricing Team at Simmons & Simmons, Verity’s previous roles include being a Director of a litigation funding and ATE insurance brokerage, an Underwriter of litigation insurance and Head of Business Development for one of the largest disputes practices in the world.

Sarah Johnson
Head of Litigation Investing
D. E. Shaw & Co.
USA
Sarah Johnson
HEAD OF LITIGATION INVESTING, D.E. SHAW & CO.

Zachary Krug
Managing Director
NorthWall Capital
UK
Zachary Krug
MANAGING DIRECTOR, NORTHWALL CAPITAL
Zachary Krug is Managing Director of Legal Assets at NorthWall Capital, a London-based private credit fund. He has two decades experience in litigation and has been recognized as a Global 100 Leader in Litigation Finance. Prior to joining NorthWall, Zachary led the legal assets strategy at Signal Capital and was a senior investment officer at Woodsford Litigation Funding in London. Before moving into litigation finance, Zachary was a trial litigator for nearly a decade and half. He most recently was a litigator in the Los Angeles office of the global litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Prior to that, he was an associate in the New York office of Shearman & Sterling, where he focused on international disputes and project finance. Zachary received his JD from Cornell Law School and his BA from Yale University.

Gian Kull
Regional Portfolio Manager – UK
Omni Bridgeway
UK
Gian Kull
REGIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGER – UK, OMNI BRIDGEWAY

Tanya Lansky
Managing Director
LionFish
UK
Tanya Lansky
MANAGING DIRECTOR, LIONFISH
Tanya Lansky is Managing Director of London-based litigation funder LionFish, and has been working in the disputes finance and insurance industries for a decade. Tanya started her career at TheJudge Global, the then market-leading specialist broker of litigation insurance and funding. Having been immersed in this niche market in its relative infancy, she then joined disputes advisory boutique Emissary Partners, to leverage her industry relationships and her economic understanding of disputes as an asset. In 2022, she joined LionFish, a principal investor offering litigation funding and financing solutions for commercial dispute risks with a focus on creativity, efficiency and transparency.

Matthew lo
Director
Exton Advisors
UK
Matthew Lo
DIRECTOR, EXTON ADVISORS
Matthew is an English law qualified, former private practice disputes lawyer with a wealth of experience in litigation funding. Matthew’s legal career began in 2015 at a global business law firm where he focussed on complex, high value international dispute resolution. Since his move into litigation finance in 2020, Matthew has advised a variety of claimants, law firms and investors on a range of issues in the litigation finance and legal risk insurance markets in relation to both capital raising transactions and discrete advisory mandates. Matthew’s skill set includes legal and financial due diligence, deal structuring, commercial negotiations and price modelling.

Jeremy Marshall
Chief Investment Officer
Winward
UK
Jeremy Marshall
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, WINWARD

Robert Marven KC
Barrister
4 New Square Chambers
UK
Robert Marven KC
BARRISTER, 4 NEW SQUARE CHAMBERS
Robert is a specialist in all areas of costs law. He is also an expert on the law concerning the funding of litigation. He has been instructed in a range of high profile cases in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Senior Courts Costs Office and the County Court. Robert also has considerable experience in mediating costs and related disputes both as a representative and as a mediator.
His practice includes: costs issues arising from high value litigation; conditional fee agreements and contingency fee agreements; commercial funding for substantial disputes; costs budgeting and funding for major group litigation; legal expenses and ‘after the event’ insurance ; fixed costs; costs budgets and estimates; costs capping; as well as wasted and non-party costs orders.

John McElroy
Partner
Fieldfisher
UK
John McElroy
PARTNER, FIELDFISHER
John McElroy is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Fieldfisher in London. Prior to joining Fieldfisher, he was Head of Commercial Disputes at the US litigation specialist firm, Hausfeld.
John is the current Vice President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association.
John is a commercial dispute resolution expert with extensive experience over more than 20 years of dealing with complex and high value commercial litigation and international arbitration matters, with a particular emphasis on financial services and contractual disputes.
He has acted in all divisions of the English High Court including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and his cases almost always involve international elements. He has been involved in LCIA, ICC, LME, LMAA, LCAM and ad hoc arbitrations – involving parties in various different jurisdictions – and in several ICSID arbitrations. He has also acted in cases before the Courts of the British Virgin Islands.

Louis Moncheur de Rieudotte
Investment Manager
Arios
BELGIUM
Louis Moncheur de Rieudotte
INVESTMENT MANAGER, ARIOS
Louis is Investment Manager at Arios, a diversified litigation finance fund combining fund-of-fund allocations with direct investments. Arios targets niche commercial disputes and law firm financing across multiple jurisdictions. Louis leads investment analysis and structuring, leveraging a dual legal and financial background to assess litigation finance opportunities. Before joining Arios, he worked in investment banking at Resilience Capital and Reyl & Cie in Geneva, Switzerland, advising on M&A, private debt, and ECM deals. He began his career in audit at PwC. Louis holds an LL.M. in Economic Law from the University of Geneva and an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Sheffield. He is a CFA charterholder.

Porfirio Moreira
Partner
Sousa Ferro
PORTUGAL
Porfirio Moreira
PARTNER, SOUSA FERRO
Porfírio is a Partner at Sousa Ferro & Associados, where he specializes in EU Law and Competition, with a particular focus on private enforcement, litigation and arbitration, and employment law.
He represents claimants in high-profile, opt-out collective actions in Portugal and is recognized for his expertise in complex, cross-border legal matters.
Porfírio is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and a published author in the field of European Union law. He was admitted to the Portuguese Bar in 2006. He is fluent in English and French.

Andrew Mutter
EVP, Contingent Risk
CAC Specialty
USA
Andrew Mutter
EVP, CONTINGENT RISK, CAC SPECIALTY
Andrew is a co-leader of CAC Specialty’s Contingent & Litigation Risk Team. Andrew specializes specializing in negotiating, placing, and advocating for coverage for Litigation and Contingent Risk Insurance for corporate claimants, defendants, law firms, and finance groups.
Andrew’s practice focuses on crafting bespoke solutions for Litigation and Contingent Risk Insurance, providing strategic certainty around both contingent legal assets and contingent legal liabilities. Andrew has placed over $2.5 billion insurance limits in the contingent risk markets on both claimant-side and defense-side contingencies. On the basis of these policies, Andrew and the Contingent Risk team has worked closely with CAC’s financing arm, Dorset Peak, to provide several hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidity.
Andrew started his career at King & Spalding, where he gained significant insurance experience successfully litigating over half a billion dollars in D&O and E&O claims on behalf of financial institutions. Andrew also has extensive experience in bet-the-company litigation, business torts, and healthcare related investigations and business disputes.
Andrew earned his J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. from Vanderbilt University. He is also a former Teach For America teacher, with four years of experience in public education.

Ravi Nayer
Partner
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
UK
Ravi Nayer
PARTNER, BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER
Ravi’s practice focuses on high stakes commercial and group litigation, acting on behalf of the UK’s largest financial services institutions, including asset managers and pension funds. The cases in which he is involved often have an ESG element. His considerable experience includes creating joint defence and novel litigation cooperation agreements for peer institutions in some of the UK’s largest class actions, including the RBS Rights Issue litigation. As well as advising on the merits and conduct of securities class actions (such as VW, Tesco, and, most recently, Glencore) and regulatory enforcement, Ravi advises on governance policies and procedures relating to bondholder litigation and securities class actions and related fiduciary duties. Ravi also advises clients on the design and implementation of private-sector compensation schemes (also called redress schemes), which he has led on in the UK in recent years, arising from alleged mass torts. He has taught comparative class actions at the University of Oxford.

Steve Nober
Founder & CEO
Consumer Attorney Marketing Group (CAMG)
USA
Steve Nober
FOUNDER & CEO, CONSUMER ATTORNEY MARKETING GROUP (CAMG)
Steve Nober, the founder and CEO of Consumer Attorney Marketing Group (CAMG), has been a major force and innovator in the legal industry for over a decade. His expertise covers the full spectrum of legal marketing, and he speaks at over 40 conferences per year on topics including best marketing practices and ethics in advertising. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies and a comprehensive approach, CAMG is focused on delivering plaintiff firms more quality cases at the best ROI. With seven service divisions and over 400 employees, CAMG is a one-stop-shop for law firms, offering data-driven offline and digital marketing, including TV, out-of-home, SEO, paid social and search, proactive public relations, call center/intake services, contract processing, and medical record retrieval and review. CAMG’s monthly Legal Marketing Index® brings the agency’s proprietary data and marketing trends to law firms to support smart marketing decisions.

Polly O’Brien
Partner
Schulte Roth + Zabel
UK
Polly O'Brien
PARTNER, SCHULTE ROTH + ZABEL
Polly has experience acting for hedge funds, private equity funds, litigation funders, specialty finance companies and investment banks in a wide range of opportunistic financings spanning the spectrum of debt and equity.
She works closely with the firm’s Investment Management team on liquidity solutions for investment funds and their managers and is a member of the firm’s multidisciplinary, cross-border litigation finance team.

NATASHA PEARMAN
Partner
Milberg
UK
Natasha Pearman
PARTNER, MILBERG

Genevieve Quierin
Partner
Stephenson Harwood
UK
Genevieve Quierin
PARTNER, STEPHENSON HARWOOD
Genevieve Quierin leads Stephenson Harwood’s Group Actions and Competition Team. With over 20 years of commercial disputes expertise, she represents many hundreds of corporate clients in interchange claims against Visa (having settled their claims against Mastercard in 2024) as well as 7 of the 10 biggest supermarkets in the UK in claims against Norwegian salmon producers for cartelised behavior. In addition to major competition litigation in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Genevieve has a breadth of experience in advising clients in relation to corporate disputes including unfair prejudice petitions, claims for breach of directors’ duties, breach of warranty claims and advising on material adverse change disputes.
Many of Genevieve’s claims are third party litigation funded and she is familiar with both third party funding and ATE insurance arrangements.

Elena Rey
Partner
Brown Rudnick
UK
Elena Rey
PARTNER, BROWN RUDNICK
Elena Rey heads the firm’s Litigation Funding group and is a co-head of the European Special Situations team. Elena represents funders, private equity funds, family offices, law firms and claimants on complex cross border litigation funding, investment & special situations transactions, and is recognised by Legal 500 as one of the leaders in the Litigation Funding space.
Elena is a founder of the annual European Litigation Funding conference held in London as well as the Litigation Funding industry working group, which was created with the aim of preparing model documentation for the litigation funding market.

Steven Rajavinothan
Director, Contingent and Litigation Risks & Head of ATE
Vale Insurance
UK
Steven Rajavinothan
DIRECTOR, CONTINGENT AND LITIGATION RISKS & HEAD OF ATE, VALE INSURANCE

ANDREAS RUSTER
Partner
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
GERMANY
Andreas Ruster
PARTNER, WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER
Andreas Ruster is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation Department. He practices in Hamburg and is based in the Firm’s Frankfurt office.
Andreas advises clients on high-stakes disputes across a range of sectors. He regularly advises and represents clients throughout the entire lifecycle of a dispute, from developing a (national or international) strategy to out-of-court discussions, court and arbitration proceedings, settlement negotiations and execution. Andreas has taken hundreds of cases to trial, appearing in many German courts and in the European Court of Justice.
Andreas handles a full range of business disputes, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in high-profile litigation. He has significant experience in antitrust litigation matters, as well as in commercial, corporate, restructuring, technology and IP disputes. He is also experienced in tailoring and implementing litigation strategies for mass actions.
Andreas is recognized for litigation, competition and antitrust in Best Lawyers and Euromoney. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on different aspects of dispute resolution, including in BeckOK on international procedural law, and a leading treatise on the Digital Markets Act. Andreas also teaches international business law as a professor at PFH Göttingen.
Andreas combines academic excellence (doctorate summa cum laude; ranked #1 in both legal state exams) and a decade of practical experience with an intrinsic motivation to achieve the best possible outcome, a strong business sense, and a solution-driven, pragmatic outlook.
Having lived in France, the U.K., and the U.S., he is happy to assist clients in both English and French, as well as his native German.

Ana Carolina Salomão Queiroz
Founding Partner
Montgomery
UK
Ana Carolina Salomão Queiroz
FOUNDING PARTNER, MONTGOMERY
Ana Carolina Salomão is the Founder and Managing Partner of Montgomery Capital Solutions, a boutique advisory firm focused on structuring and executing investments across litigation finance, legal assets, and private credit. With a background in law from the University of São Paulo (USP), an LLM in Law and Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and an MBA from INSEAD, Ana Carolina has held leadership roles in legal finance and has advised law firms and institutional investors across the UK, Europe, and LATAM. At Montgomery, she leads cross-border transactions that combine legal complexity with financial innovation, delivering capital solutions to both claimholders and investors. She is also deeply committed to philanthropy, with a personal focus on education and access to justice.

Paul de Servigny
Fund Manager
IVO Capital
FRANCE
Paul de Servigny
FUND MANAGER, IVO CAPITAL
Paul joined IVO Capital Partners in October 2018 as a legal analyst in the Litigation Finance team. Paul focuses primarily on analyzing and monitoring litigation finance transactions. He was appointed fund manager of IVO’s litigation funding strategy in September 2021 and was responsible for the structuring, fundraising and deployment of their third vehicle a 110mm euros French limited partnership dedicated mostly to Europe. Paul is admitted to the New York bar and also holds a Master’s degree in French and English business law, and a Master’s degree in comparative business law from Université Paris X. He also holds an LLM from the University of California Berkeley.

ANDREW STULCE
Director
Longford Capital
USA
Andrew Stulce
DIRECTOR, LONGFORD CAPITAL
Andrew is a Director of Longford Capital. He is responsible for investment sourcing, due diligence, and monitoring of portfolio investments.
Andrew is an accomplished attorney with more than ten years of experience working on complex and high-value litigation and arbitration. After serving as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Andrew spent the bulk of his career in private practice in the litigation departments of Hunton & Williams LLP (now Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP) and McGuireWoods LLP.
Andrew also teaches a litigation finance course as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia.

Louise Trayhurn
Co-Founder & Director
Crescient
UK
Louise Trayhurn
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, CRESCIENT
Originally trained at Allen & Overy in London and Paris, Louise is an experienced legal finance professional with nearly 20 years’ combined litigation and litigation finance experience.
Following wide-ranging litigation, mediation and arbitration experience gaining perspectives from both defence and claimant side firms, as well as the GC and regulator perspectives, she assisted in the development of the litigation funding arm of Orchard Global Asset Management LLP, and then went on to help co-found Bench Walk Advisors in 2017 and later became a partner in Legis Finance, which manages a $104m litigation risk backed credit line. She is a regular speaker on the conference circuit with recognised expertise on litigation funding and now provides independent advisory services on all aspects of the litigation funding ecosphere.
Louise also sits on the Development Committee of Classics for All which supports teaching provision of under privileged children. She has two children of her own and a puppy and can often be found chasing after one or more of them through the Surrey Hills.

Chris Williams
Vice President
Bench Walk Advisors
UK
Chris Williams
VICE PRESIDENT, BENCH WALK ADVISORS
Chris is Vice President in Bench Walk Advisors’ London office.
Chris is responsible for originating, underwriting, pricing, executing, and managing new investments. Chris was named in Lawdragon as one of the 100 Leaders in Litigation Finance and was also identified as “one to watch” by Chambers and Partners in 2024.
Since joining Bench Walk in 2023, Chris has closed several high value single case investments, including two opt-out class actions. He is currently managing three ongoing investments in the CAT.
Before entering the litigation funding market, Chris worked for M7 Developments, part of the M7 Group (a €6 billion pan-European investment and asset manager). Prior to working in real estate, Chris practiced as a barrister in London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2008.
Chris holds a first-class degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Manchester and a M.Sc. from Cass Business School.
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