Episode 11 of The Slarskey Brief is LIVE – Litigation Finance By The Numbers

September 29, 2025

Episode 11 of Slarskey LLC’s podcast is now live on YouTube, Apple Podcast, and Spotify! 

In this episode of The Slarskey Brief, Slarskey LLC Partner Evan Fried is joined by Charles Agee (Founder & CEO, Westfleet Advisors) and Dai Wai Chin Feman (Managing Director & Corporate Counsel, Parabellum Capital) for a deep dive into the numbers behind litigation finance. 

Titled "Litigation Finance By The Numbers," this wide-ranging discussion breaks down the realities—and myths—of the legal funding industry using the latest research and market data.

The team covers a lot of ground in just over 30 minutes, including:

• How Westfleet and others are working to bring transparency and data-driven insight to a historically opaque litigation funding market
• The meaning and limitations of headline figures like the oft-cited "$16.1 billion" in AUM—and what numbers actually matter for understanding the market
• Recent academic and industry articles placing the litigation funding market in context, including the difference between “AUM” and annual deployment, and why the scale of the industry is often overestimated
• Disclosure, transparency, and efforts by industry players and trade groups to illuminate how litigation funding arises in court dockets, including federal and state disclosure orders, and the impact of bankruptcy and receivership proceedings
• Trends in industry growth and selectivity, the challenges of new market entrants, the acceptance rate for funding applications, and what makes a case attractive to funders
• The ongoing evolution of pricing litigation risk and the intersection with contingency fees
• Predictions on transparency, potential regulation or disclosure requirements, and what’s next for industry performance metrics

…and much more!

Click on the following links to view the video recording on YouTube, and or access the audio recording on Spotify or Apple Podcast. 

We've also included links to some of the source materials mentioned in the episode in the "Related Information" section:

• The WestFleet Insider, the groundbreaking annual research report on litigation funding published by Westfleet Advisors, and
• "Market Perspective: What Is the True Size of The Commercial Litigation Funding Industry?" - recently published by Parabellum's Will Weisman in the National Law Review