Adrian Chopin
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Email: adrian.chopin@benchwalk.com
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Top Ranked in Litigation Support 2025, UK
Top Ranked in Litigation Support 2025, Europe
Adrian Chopin
Chambers
Top Ranked in Litigation Support 2024, UK
Top Ranked in Litigation Support 2024, Europe
Adrian Chopin
Adrian is Co-Founder and Managing Director, leading Bench Walk Advisors’ London office, which he opened in 2017.
Combining a background in banking and law, Adrian has gained a reputation as one of the most creative and deal-oriented individuals in the industry, having funded more than 200 individual commercial cases during his career in litigation funding.
Prior to joining Bench Walk, Adrian founded a new litigation funding business for a large hedge fund, which he built into a market-leading, highly profitable and well-diversified business of over $100 million in under two years. Before entering the litigation funding market, Adrian was head of the Debt & Equity Solutions Group for Deutsche Bank, New York, where he ran a large number of ground-breaking structured finance and regulatory capital transactions. Adrian began his career at Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy in London.
He is regularly acknowledged by leading global industry publications, including Chambers and Partners where he is ranked Band 1 in Litigation Support. He is among Law Dragon’s Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance and is recognised as a ‘Thought Leader: Third-Party Funding’ by Who’s Who Legal. Adrian has authored a series of articles on the structuring, pricing and risk analysis of litigation funding transactions.
Adrian holds a first class degree in Law and German Law from the University of Nottingham where he graduated top of his class and won various academic prizes.
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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).
Litigation funding has typically focused on claimant side investment. Defence funding feels less valuable because it does not so obviously unlock an asset. In addition, the cash benefit of having a funder pay defence legal costs will often be dwarfed by the potential cash payout by the defendant on a loss. And finally, a defendant worth suing is usually not cash constrained in the same way as many claimants who seek funding. But as the funding market has matured, some funders, defence lawyers and their clients have begun to express interest in defence funding.
Litigation funding has typically focused on claimant side investment. Defence funding feels less valuable because it does not so obviously unlock an asset. In addition, the cash benefit of having a funder pay defence legal costs will often be dwarfed by the potential cash payout by the defendant on a loss. And finally, a defendant worth suing is usually not cash constrained in the same way as many claimants who seek funding. But as the funding market has matured, some funders, defence lawyers and their clients have begun to express interest in defence funding.
Litigation funding has typically focused on claimant side investment. Defence funding feels less valuable because it does not so obviously unlock an asset. In addition, the cash benefit of having a funder pay defence legal costs will often be dwarfed by the potential cash payout by the defendant on a loss. And finally, a defendant worth suing is usually not cash constrained in the same way as many claimants who seek funding. But as the funding market has matured, some funders, defence lawyers and their clients have begun to express interest in defence funding.
In a new post on the Practical Law Dispute Resolution blog, Adrian Chopin at Bench Walk Advisors considers defence litigation funding, including the available funding options, its increasing attractiveness and the potential challenges.
Litigation funding has typically focused on claimant side investment. Defence funding feels less valuable because it does not so obviously unlock an asset. In addition, the cash benefit of having a funder pay defence legal costs will often be dwarfed by the potential cash payout by the defendant on a loss. And finally, a defendant worth suing is usually not cash constrained in the same way as many claimants who seek funding. But as the funding market has matured, some funders, defence lawyers and their clients have begun to express interest in defence funding.
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.