You may view the 2024 program details below by selecting each day.
The inaugural LF Dealmakers | Mass Torts Edition will take place on September 17 at Apella in New York City, preceding the 7th Annual LF Dealmakers Forum. It is not included with the annual forum registration, but a combined event ticket is available at a discounted rate. For more details and to register for the back-to-back events, visit: https://masstortsdealmakers.com.
The opening reception will take place offsite at the Royalton Park Avenue. Access is exclusively available to registered attendees of the 7th Annual LF Dealmakers Forum and the inaugural LF Dealmakers | Mass Torts Edition.
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilizing our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.
- Assessing the performance of litigation finance as an asset class
- Key industry trends and innovations
- Developments in the secondary market
- The future of litigation finance outlook
Speakers:
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- Erin Mulvaney, Legal Affairs Reporter, The Wall Street Journal (moderator)
- Brandon Baer, Founder & CIO, Contingency Capital
- William Derrough, Managing Director & Global Co-Head of Capital Structure Advisory, Moelis & Company
- Michael A. Nicolas, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Longford Capital
- Michael Richards, SVP – Distressed Debt Trading and Sourcing, Jefferies & Company
- What courts have said about disclosure: recent case highlights
- What to disclose and why: hearing it from both sides
- How to protect attorney-client and work product privilege
- What regulation is needed, if any, and why?
Speakers:
- Alison Frankel, Litigation Columnist, Reuters (moderator)
- Erick Robinson, Partner, Bochner PLLC
- Peter Lambrianakos, Partner, Fabricant LLP
- Ashok Pinto, Director of IP Policy, Intel
- Creating an affirmative litigation program
- Structuring litigation for early recoveries
- How to avoid jeopardizing customer relationships
- Effectively using litigation funding
Speakers:
- Michael P. Fritz, Principal, McKool Smith (moderator)
- Carrie B. Freed, Investment Manager & Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway
- Sandy Grimm, Chief Legal Officer, Southeastern Grocers
- Paul Haskel, Partner, Crowell & Moring
- Vincent Montalto, Partner & Co-Chair, Affirmative Litigation Group, DLA Piper
- Charles Schmerler, Senior Managing Director and Head of Litigation Finance, Pretium Partners
- Understanding how cases are successfully tried today
- Top practical considerations in moving forward
- What your lawyer should and shouldn’t be doing
- Hedging the known unknowns
Speaker:
Steven Molo, Founding Partner, MoloLamken
- LFAs and the waterfall – making it work in your favor
- The growing use of independent counsel
- Fund structures, deal structures, terms, and returns
- New and best practices for making a deal work
Speakers:
- Michael P. Kelley, Partner, Parker Poe (moderator)
- Joseph Dunn, Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group
- Adam Hudes, Partner, Vinson & Elkins
- Sarah Johnson, Head of Litigation Investing, D.E. Shaw & Co.
- Ryan Stephen, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Pine Valley Capital Partners
- How insurers are working with funders to share risk
- Which law firms are using insurance, how and why?
- Insurance-backed litigation funding for plaintiffs
- Exploring sustainability of current product offerings
Speakers:
- Nicole Silver, Head of Operations, Lead Underwriter, Ignite Specialty Risk (moderator)
- Megan Easley, SVP, Contingent Risk, CAC Specialty
- Ted Farrell, Founder, Litigation Funding Advisers
- Jon Scahill, President & CEO, Quest Patent Research Corporation
- Key highlights and learning from LF Dealmakers | Mass Torts Edition
- Spotting the next big and best torts to fund
- Emerging and innovative uses of ABS
- Trends and opportunities in global mass actions
Speakers:
- Steve Nober, Founder & CEO, Consumer Attorney Marketing Group (CAMG) (moderator)
- Alfredo Chang, Co-Founder & Partner, C Cubed Capital Partners
- Jason Ethridge, Director, Gerchen Capital Partners
- Scott Hardy, President, Trimaxian
- Uliana Pak, VP of Growth, Torticity
FUNDING AND INSURANCE: FRIENDS, FOES, OR FRENEMIES
- Learning from insurance history: marine insurance, bond insurance, liability insurance
- Where are we now and how did we get here?
- What history tells us about the road ahead
- Challenges and controversies
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilizing our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.
A group of industry veterans will together discuss the best and worst things that have happened in their extensive years of litigation funding. They’ll breakdown the details of what happened and why plus the lessons they learned.
Speakers:
- Charles Eldering, CEO, CAsE Analysis Group (moderator)
- Rebecca Berrebi, Founder & CEO, Avenue 33
- Fred Fabricant, Managing Partner, Fabricant LLP
- David Kerstein, Founder & Managing Director, Arcadia Finance
- Can technology be useful for origination?
- Where are we with financial modeling capabilities
- Barriers to adoption and implementation
- What’s better: internal development or an external provider?
Speakers:
- Isabel Yishu Yang, CEO, ArbiLex (moderator)
- Evyatar Ben Artzi, CEO, Darrow
- Alison Hawthorne, Principal, Beasley Allen
- Eva Shang, Co-Founder & CEO, Legalist
- Eamon Walsh, President, US Market, Advoc8se
- Gaining buy-in and developing a strong knowledge base within the firm
- Understanding the options, deal structures, and pitfalls that accompany funding
- Developing a process for presenting funding opportunities
- Knowing the market
Speakers:
- Jim Batson, Chief Operating Officer, Westfleet Advisors (moderator)
- Lauren Coppola, Partner, Robins Kaplan
- Randy Curato, VP – Senior Loss Prevention Counsel, ALAS
- John S. Holley, Partner, Spencer Fane
- Key updates from the Federal and State level
- The latest from the Courts
- The push for regulation
- How the industry is responding
Speakers:
- Courtney Quish, Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group
- Victoria Sahani, Professor of Law, Boston University
- Boris Ziser, Partner, Schulte Roth + Zabel
As a part of the LF Dealmakers Think & Drink, attendees will have the option to join an intimate discussion looking at how the industry is responding to increased scrutiny and opposition. Groups will work to strategize and craft effective responses to growing calls for regulatory and political change.
Participants can schedule one-to-one meetings or join us for networking and roundtable discussions accompanied by wine, soft drinks, and nibbles. We’ll host a series of facilitated discussions for small groups of 8-10 people per roundtable with topics announced shortly.