Neil Woodford was once the UK’s biggest star fund manager, personally managing a £25bn mountain of money on behalf of pension funds and other investors at Invesco Perpetual. He got his first break in insurance, before drifting into fund management. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Notice, Complaints notice for Burford Law clients. With the acquisition of the UK’s leading ATE insurance provider, Firstassist Legal Expenses, Burford enters the UK legal finance market. Woodford, who was widely referred to in the media as an investment “hero” and fund management “star”, had done exceedingly well over his quarter century there. Woodford needs to raise cash so that investors who want to quit the underperforming fund when it reopens will be able to leave. Burford Capital is the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. His criticism of AstraZeneca chief executive David Brennan in the 2012 shareholder spring was widely regarded to have cost him his job, and his critique of BAE’s attempted £28bn merger with Airbus is acknowledged as one of the reasons the deal collapsed. The first Singapore-seated arbitration funded by a third-party finance provider is financed by Burford.
We have come a long way from the $11 million in commitments we made in 2009, our first year in business. Since then, Burford has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporations, including 91 of the world’s 100 largest law firms.
You’ve always got to expose yourself to criticism and the analysis that you may be wrong.”, Woodford went on to say that the secret of successful fund management was a balance of arrogance and humility. Burford's CEO Christopher Bogart and CIO Jonathan Molot met at a RAND conference in 2009 and discovered a shared interest in developing new ways for companies and law firms to manage the cost of high-stakes commercial disputes.
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