Emily Slater is a Managing Director with responsibility for assessing and underwriting legal risk across a broad range of practice areas and for identifying high-value investments in the marketplace. Ms. Slater has over a decade of experience working with clients to structure state-of-the-art business solutions using legal finance and underwriting legal finance transactions. She played a significant role in building Burford’s globally recognized, industry-leading investment and underwriting processes. She is recognized as a Law Dragon Global 100 Leader in Litigation Finance.

Ms. Slater speaks frequently about legal finance in the media and at events, including those organized by the American Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, M&A Advisors, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, Managed Funds Association, The Beard Group and others.

Prior to joining Burford, Ms. Slater was a litigator at Debevoise & Plimpton, where she specialized in complex securities and other bet-the-company commercial litigation and regulatory investigations involving billions in damages and led a landmark pro bono class action litigation regarding mental health treatment in New York City jails, which prevailed in the New York State Court of Appeals. She was a founding member of the Pro Bono Advisory Council of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and served as a trustee of Brooklyn Heights Montessori School.

Ms. Slater graduated from New York University School of Law in 2001, where she was the Colloquium Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change.