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Published articles, interviews and Bench Walk related news.
Bench Walk will be sponsoring the much-anticipated LF Dealmakers | European Edition |18-19 April 2024
We’re delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the much-anticipated LF Dealmakers, European Edition.
Lawdragon Interview Ayse Yazir as ISTAW Enters Its Second Year
Next month, Istanbul Arbitration Week will kick off its second year. Lawdragon chatted with one of the main organizers of the conference, Ayse Yazir, about the topics, panelists and special events taking place at ISTAW this year.
Lawdragon Legal Funding Focus: Ayse Yazir of Bench Walk Advisors
Ayse Yazir’s early career in insurance taught her how to spot a good investment. Now, as a litigation funder, she sorts through securities cases, class actions and more that come to her from across the globe, searching for the cases her firm’s funding can make into headline successes.
Bench Walk RANKED IN UK, USA AND EUROPE BY CHAMBERS & PARTNERS, 2023
Bench Walk Chambers & Partners rankings 2023
Bench Walk award winners announced in the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards, 2022.
Bench Walk Award Winners Announced by Lawyer Monthly, 2022
Adrian Chopin chosen as ‘Litigation Funding Adviser of the Year’ 2022, by Lawyer Monthly
Adrian Chopin chosen at ‘Litigation Funding Adviser of the year’ 2022, by Lawyer Monthly
Ayse Yazir shortlisted for ‘Woman of the Year’ award
Ayse Yazir Shortlisted for ‘Woman of the Year’ award.
Bloomberg: Interview with Ayse Yazir at ISTAW 2022
Bloomberg interview with Ayse Yazir at Istanbul Arbitration Week 2022
LAWDRAGON: Interview with Ayse Yazir
Istanbul Arbitration Week kicks off next week, running October 10 to 14. This is the second year for the event, hosted by the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center, or EDAC. Topics include collecting on claims, ADR mechanisms, the Energy Charter Treaty, litigation funding and other subjects pertinent to arbitration.
Legal 500: Interview with Ayse Yazir- Global Head of Origination, Bench Walk Advisors LLC
You were awarded the Turkish National State Scholarship to study Turkish Law at Başkent University and studied English Law at Nottingham Law School, England. Tell us about your experiences studying in two separate countries and what made you decide to become a lawyer…..
HALL OF FAME LIMELIGHT: STUART GRANT
Stuart Grant, known internationally for his plaintiff advocacy work on behalf of stockholders, co-founded Bench Walk Advisors in 2017. The company has since invested nearly half a billion dollars into over 150 commercial cases and portfolios. They have offices in New York, Delaware and London.
Four Bench Walk Team members named to THE 2022 LAWDRAGON GLOBAL 100 LEADERS IN LITIGATION FINANCE.
Bench Walk are proud to announce that four of our team members have been named as industry leaders in the 2022 Lawdragon Global Litigation Finance Guide.
Stuart Grant: among the most impactful plaintiff financial lawyers ever, Lawdragon Hall of Fame (2022)
We are proud to introduce the 2022 class of the Lawdragon Hall of Fame. Among them are the nation’s greatest corporate litigators, plaintiff powerhouses, innovators who established new areas of law practice and individuals whose dedication to a sometimes precarious legal system are unsurpassed.
Match Group Settles Lawsuit Over Tinder’s Valuation
Bench Walk Advisors is proud to have financed this claim and to have helped facilitate a great outcome for the plaintiffs. On behalf of everyone at Bench Walk, our warmest congratulations to all involved.
Access to International Arbitration and Third-Party Funding in Kosovo
Kosovo has made significant efforts toward building a successful legal framework for protecting foreign
investments. Kosovo became a party to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
(“ICSID”) convention in 2009; has passed a number of domestic laws and regulations promoting foreign
investments; has signed and ratified various bilateral investment treaties (“BIT”); and has passed a
domestic arbitration law that is largely based on the UNCITRAL Model Law. In little more than a decade
of state-building, Kosovo has clearly recognized the importance of foreign direct investments for
developing its emerging economy.
Investor Protection in Europe: What does the future hold?
What does the future hold for investment protection in Europe? A colossal question that resonates across board rooms and government halls on both sides of the Channel. With a consortium of investment law experts including Nikos Lavranos (NL Investment Consulting), Ayse Lowe (Bench Walk), Gordon Nardell QC (Twenty Essex), and Laura Rees-Evans (Fietta LLP) joining together, the webinar held on 30 June 2021 provided multi-disciplinary viewpoints that will be of interest to both investors and States alike.
Bench Walk’s UK team graces the cover of Acquisition International
Massive congratulations to our UK Team for winning Acquisition International Magazine's ‘Most Innovative Legal Capital Solutions Provider’ award.
Funder mentalists: how much does a legal megabrain cost?
In my prior blogs I examined “implied probability of loss” as a way of analysing the risk and price of transactions in the litigation funding market.
Let’s take for example (and with all the usual caveats about being reductive) a funder that determines that a case has, say, a 2/3 chance of winning and generating for both the claimant and the funder lots of money, and a 1/3 chance of losing with an attendant destruction of the funder’s entire investment. When pricing this case that funder must charge, on a win, $1.5 for every $1 invested just to break even. This is because the funder has a 1 in 3 chance of losing 100% and a 2/3 chance of winning 150%, which yields, on average, 100% (that is, a mere return of the funder’s investment).