Litigation Finance By The Numbers

In this episode of The Slarskey Brief, Slarskey LLC Partner Evan Fried is joined by Charles Agee (Founder & CEO, Westfleet Advisors) and Dai Wai Chin Feman (Managing Director & Corporate Counsel, Parabellum Capital) for a deep dive into the numbers behind litigation finance. 

The wide-ranging discussion breaks down the realities—and myths—of the legal funding industry using the latest research and market data, including:

- How Westfleet and others are working to bring transparency and data-driven insight to a historically opaque litigation funding market

- The meaning and limitations of headline figures like the often-cited "$16.1 billion" in AUM—and what numbers actually matter for understanding the market

- Recent academic and industry articles placing the litigation funding market in context, including the difference between AUM and annual deployment, and why the scale of the industry is often overestimated

- Disclosure, transparency, and efforts by industry players and trade groups to illuminate how litigation funding arises in court dockets, including federal and state disclosure orders, and the impact of bankruptcy and receivership proceedings

- Trends in industry growth and selectivity, the challenges of new market entrants, the acceptance rate for funding applications, and what makes a case attractive to funders

- The ongoing evolution of pricing litigation risk and the intersection with contingency fees

- Predictions on transparency, potential regulation or disclosure requirements, and what’s next for industry performance metrics

…and much more!