In partnership with ILFA & Special Situations Litigation Finance

A full-day program exploring regulatory, cross-border, investing, and restructuring developments shaping the litigation finance market—followed by drinks and networking.

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Agenda

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Faculty House (Level 2), 64 Morningside Drive, Columbia University, New York City
9:30 AM
Registration, breakfast & networking
10:00 AM
Welcome & introduction
10:15 AM
Panel 1: Litigation funding regulation in America: Where we are and where we're heading
11:00 AM
Morning break & networking
11:30 AM
Panel 2: Cross-border asset tracing and investigations: Global perspective
12:15 PM
Lunch break & networking
1:15 PM
Panel 3: Legal and financial strategies in distressed transactions and restructuring
2:05 PM
Panel 4: Investing in legal claims: Where are the opportunities?
2:55 PM
Afternoon break & networking
3:15 PM
Panel 5: Litigation funding from a global perspective
4:00–6:00 PM
Closing remarks & drinks reception

Location

Faculty House (Level 2)
64 Morningside Drive, Columbia University, New York City

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Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting this program.

Platinum Sponsor
Galdino, Pimenta, Takemi, Ayoub, Salgueiro, Rezende de Almeida Advogados
Galdino, Pimenta, Takemi, Ayoub, Salgueiro, Rezende de Almeida Advogados

Galdino, Pimenta, Takemi, Ayoub, Salgueiro, Rezende de Almeida Advogados is a leading Brazilian dispute resolution boutique founded in 2013. With offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and Belo Horizonte, the firm brings together over 100 lawyers exclusively dedicated to high-stakes disputes. The firm is recognized for complex commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, corporate restructuring, and credit recovery—advising banks, investment funds, and asset managers on litigation strategy, enforcement of claims, DIP financing, acquisition of distressed assets, and structured operations in insolvency environments.

Silver Sponsors
Monterio de Castro, Setoguti Advogados
Monterio de Castro, Setoguti Advogados

MCS Advogados is a law firm composed of lawyers with intense activity in national and international cases. With a main office in São Paulo, the firm renders services in Litigation, Arbitration, Corporate Law, M&A, Capital and Financial Markets, Bankruptcy, and Special Situations, serving clients across a wide range of industries with creative, practical, multidisciplinary solutions.

BTG Pactual
BTG Pactual

BTG Pactual is the largest investment bank in Latin America and offers Wealth Management, Asset Management and Investment Banking services. Since its creation in 1983, BTG Pactual has adopted a meritocratic partnership culture, with a focus on its customers, excellence and a long-term vision, with offices across the Americas and Europe.

Siguler Guff
Siguler Guff

Founded in 1995, Siguler Guff is a multi-strategy private markets investment firm with approximately $18 billion of assets under management. The firm seeks to generate strong, risk-adjusted returns by focusing opportunistically on market niches, including Brazilian Legal Claims, and serves a broad global base of institutional and private clients.

Bronze Sponsors
Machado Meyer
Machado Meyer

Founded in 1972, Machado Meyer is one of Latin America’s leading law firms, recognized for its strategic approach and ability to support companies in complex, high-impact matters, with offices across Brazil and in New York.

Prisma Capital
Prisma Capital

Prisma Capital is a leading Brazilian alternative asset manager, founded in 2017, with over US$4.0 bn in assets under management across its investment strategies, including equity, credit, legal claims, non-performing loans, bankruptcies and judicial recoveries, infrastructure and real estate.

Duarte, Forssell Advogados
Duarte, Forssell Advogados

Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel

Quinn Emanuel is a 1300+ lawyer business litigation firm with 33 global office locations and is the world’s largest firm devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration.

Scanlon & Clingan
Scanlon & Clingan

Scanlon & Clingan is a Washington, D.C.-based litigation boutique focused on government and white-collar enforcement defense, federal civil litigation, and complex cross-border disputes, including asset tracing and recovery.

StoneTurn
StoneTurn

StoneTurn is a global professional services firm that helps solve complex business issues across investigations, compliance, economics, technology, cybersecurity, and business and litigation advisory.

Milbank
Milbank

Milbank LLP is an elite global law firm advising clients on their most important and complex matters across Financial Restructuring, Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance, Transportation and Space, Leveraged Finance, Alternative Investments, Corporate Finance and Securities, Corporate/M&A, Litigation and Arbitration, and Tax.