Validity Finance, a two-year-old litigation funder led by industry veteran Ralph Sutton, has hired a former Boies Schiller Flexner attorney to evaluate cases and added a former Kirkland & Ellis patent trial lawyer as a senior investment advisor.
Joshua Libling, a commercial and appellate lawyer who was counsel at Boies Schiller, will be a New York-based portfolio counsel at Validity. James Amend, who was a partner in Kirkland’s IP practice for nearly 40 years until 2007, will be a Chicago-based senior investment advisor.
The hires come as Validity says it has seen an uptick in demand for litigation funding, a ...
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