WEBINAR DETAILS
Date: 10 March 2022
Time: 3:00 PM UTC
Duration: 60 min
Language: English
Format: Online
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WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

United States: Litigation Finance 201: Beyond the Basics

This webinar will go beyond the basics of what litigation finance is by delving deeper into the issues of how to create value for clients by treating litigation as an investment.

The webinar will cover three general topics. 

First, it will discuss the role of funding in an overall litigation strategy by exploring issues of risk mitigation and cost control;
Second, it will discuss some of the evolving rules around funding and disclosure and how that might affect your litigation;
Third, it will cover modeling a litigation and how to evaluate the economics of a financing transaction.

SPEAKERS
Joshua Libling

Joshua is a former Big Law litigator who practiced in complex commercial and appellate litigation, especially antitrust and corporate governance.

At Validity, Joshua's focus is on making litigation decisions analytically clearer and ensuring that Validity's clients get all the insight and information they need to choose the best funding solution for them. 

Stephen Kyriacou

Stephen Kyriacou, Jr. is a Senior Vice President and Senior Lawyer in Aon's Litigation Risk and Special Opportunities Groups. As a member of the Litigation Risk Group, Stephen evaluates litigation-related risks and structures and places litigation risk insurance solutions. As a member of the Special Opportunities Group, Stephen provides consulting and broking services to clients on litigation-related risk management solutions and litigation-driven, insurance capital-based investment opportunities. 

Prior to moving to Aon, Stephen was a complex commercial litigator in the New York City office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner from 2011 to 2019. While at BSF, Stephen amassed significant trial, appellate, and arbitration experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the U.S. and abroad across a wide array of practice areas, including securities, antitrust, constitutional, insurance, first amendment, employment, government contracting, and criminal law, as well as in multidistrict and class action litigation.

Tatiana Sainati

Tatiana’s practice covers complex commercial litigation, arbitration, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She represents corporate clients involved in commercial and international litigations and arbitrations, including government contracts, healthcare, intellectual property, personal injury and other contract and tort disputes positioned in domestic and international courts and tribunals.

Prior to joining Wiley, Tatiana served as a Legal Adviser to Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague, advising on complex, politically sensitive state-to-state cases, and as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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