Litigation Funding - USA - Nationwide
Band 3
What the Team is Known For
Dallas-based Lake Whillans offers funding to clients through portfolio arrangements, as well as on a single-case basis. Its respected in-house team has significant trial experience and is able to work across a range of cases, including arbitrations and jurisdictions.
Strengths
Lake Whillans are extremely intelligent and sophisticated when it comes to their knowledge and experience with valuing and managing litigation. One thing that really stands out is their ability to move quickly and cut to the chase with respect to investment decisions.
Lake Whillans are experts at quickly understanding and acting on strong investment opportunities. The firm's principals are all senior-level, experienced investors.
Lake Whillans are responsive, quick and insightful. They are not just litigation funders; when they are involved, they are an extra member of the team and provide support and advice.
Lake Whillans has a great mix of folks with deep finance backgrounds and deep legal backgrounds, and the team does a very good job of bringing both skillsets to analyse situations. They are a pleasure to deal with.
Work Highlights
Lake Whillans Capital Partners funded a breach of contract claim brought by contingent value rights holders of Celgene against Bristol-Myers Squibb following Bristol-Myers Squibb's acquisition of Celgene.
Notable practitioners
Boaz Weinstein is a co-founder and a managing director at Lake Whillans. His legal expertise and business sense is widely recognised and he has been funding matters successfully for several years.
He is extremely bright and sophisticated and has always been a good businessman.
Boaz Weinstein is very sharp. He gets really good deals without being too loud about it. He employs a deeply strategic view to cases they select.
Boaz Weinstein has deep experience directing and navigating the investment process and isolating critical issues.
Boaz Weinstein is a very good litigation funder who brings practicality, intelligence and business acumen to every deal.
Chris Hagale is a managing director at Lake Whillans. Sources praise Hagale for his insight and experience in litigation funding.
Chris Hagale is anything you could ask for. He can read the tea leaves and understand what we need. He has a lot of touch and feel, and you can't teach that; it comes with experience.
Chris is an excellent litigator and provides consistently valuable input.
Chris Hagale has an extremely wide breadth of knowledge and a granular level of focus on detail. It's a rare combination.
Marla Decker is a former litigator who has acted for corporate and financial services clients on a range of high-stakes commercial litigation matters.
Marla Decker is an experienced investor who drills down into complex issues to uncover value.
Marla Decker is a very strong litigation finance professional.
Marla Decker provides prompt, sound and straightforward advice on all aspects of the litigation process.
Marla Decker distinguishes herself by being an extremely good analyst of legal problems and issues. She is a highly sophisticated thinker and critical to Lake Whillans' underwriting process.
Marla Decker has in-depth knowledge and the ability to comprehend and translate complex litigation issues.
