What are some of your proudest recent achievements? As I look back on Burford’s first decade, I am most proud of the team that I helped to build and the collaborative culture we’ve created that has enabled the firm’s extraordinary growth and success. Most recently, the launch of The Equity Project in October 2018 was a proud moment for me; it was a manifestation of a career-long commitment to promoting women in law.

The Equity Project is a ground-breaking initiative designed to help close the gender gap in law through a $50 million pool of capital earmarked for financing commercial litigation and arbitration matters led by women. Less than 10% of the thousands of commercial matters brought to Burford in our first nine years were led by women lawyers. The Equity Project provides an economic incentive to change that and to incentivize women and their firms to put women in charge of large complex litigation. We recruited almost two dozen lawyers from the world’s leading law firms and corporations to be Equity Project Champions and to help us promote the availability of the capital and incentivize change.