Adrian Chopin

Career

Adrian is Co-Founder and Managing Director, leading Bench Walk Advisors’ London office.

Combining a background in banking and law, Adrian has a reputation as one of the most creative, deal-oriented individuals in the industry, having funded more than 200 individual commercial cases over the past five years. Prior to joining Bench Walk, Adrian founded a litigation funding business which he built into a market-leading, highly profitable 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 Allen & Overy.

He is regularly acknowledged by leading global industry publications. He is among Lawdragon’s Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance and recognised as a ‘Thought Leader: Third-Party Funding’ by Who’s Who Legal.

Professional Memberships

SRA

Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment

Publications

'Funder mentalists: how much does a legal megabrain cost?'

'LitFin: no longer sitting on defence'

'Funders-keepers: is litigation funding too expensive?'

'Funding Nemo: do funders fund too few cases?'

All of these article can be accessed via Thomson Reuters Dispute Resolution Blog at http://disputeresolutionblog.practicallaw.com/authors/adrian-chopin/