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Burford Insights Part 1: How Can Companies Maximize Recoveries By Opting-out Of Group Litigations? (Video)
06 May 2022
Burford Capital LLC
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Kelly Daley is a Managing Director and
the head of Burford's Chicago office where she leads the US
commercial underwriting group in assessing and structuring
investments in high-value commercial litigation. Prior to joining
Burford, Ms. Daley was a senior litigator at Orrick Herrington. In
this video, she explains how companies can maximize recoveries by
opting out of group litigations:
- What it means to opt out of a group litigation and the risks
and rewards of doing so
- Why companies haven't historically chosen to opt out in the
past and why this is changing
- The risk- and cost-shifting benefits to using legal finance as
part of an opt out
- Real life examples of how legal finance is used in an opt out
scenario
This video was recorded on 8 April.
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