Selvyn Seidel

Fulbrook Capital Management is among the newer entrants to the Funding industry. It is different in that, among other things, it:

• Occupies and is pioneering a needy, different, space, dedicated to (a) advising commercial claimants on evaluating their claims, and, (b) assisting qualified claimants in accessing capital (from a variety of capital sources) needed to support the claim and claimant.

• Specializes in selective, high stakes commercial claims, typically international. 

• Is a “hands on” entity, as opposed to a “hands off” entity (as are all established dedicated funders).  It is thus committed to and capable of enhancing various claims in their chances to succeed. 

Fulbrook has also created a Center for Pricing and Profits in Third Party Funding, which, for the first time, is committed to establishing an organized, objective, educational ongoing effort to study and report on the basis and rationale and experience of investors in the industry concerning pricing the cost to claimants for funding, and the profits sought and achieved by the investors.  In this connection, the Center is also exploring the pricing and profits of stakeholders in the investment, especially lawyers involved the funding process and the prosecution of the claims, and the investors in the funding entity itself.

Fulbrook has in this last year been given, by three different business journals conducting separate wide-ranging surveys, the award for being the best in 2013 in the Third Party Funding Industry. It has just received two similar awards for 2014.

Fulbrook does not control any claim; the claimant is left in control.  Nor does it ever act as a lawyer or another professional.  It is solely an independent consultant and advisor.

Fulbrook’s Chairman, CEO and founder, Selvyn Seidel, was a recognized commercial litigator for over forty years, most of this time with Latham & Watkins, a leading international law firm.  During this career, he co-founded the New York Office of Latham, now the largest in the firm; was the chairman of international practice, which grew from no offices abroad to over 40, with the firm recognized as an international leader (just recognized as the first of 40 top non-UK firms in London); and at other times, the chairman of international litigation and arbitration;  and the New York Office litigation practice; while he maintained an active litigation practice in complex litigations. 

He is also experienced and recognized in the Funding industry.  In this connection, and before founding and leading Fulbrook to where it is today, he co-founded in 2009, and chaired, Burford, a public institutional funder that is now the largest in the world (with close to $500 million under management).  He teaches or has taught and lectured on the industry at leading law schools (including Oxford Law (where he took a Diploma in Law), Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Iowa Law School,  and New York University School of Law) (where he was an adjunct professor of law for 10 years) ; and at many conferences in different parts of the western and eastern world.  He is chairman of the Advisory Committee of the recently formed Center created by the Columbia Law School that is devoted to International Arbitration – a Center that has created an annual event on Funding of International Arbitrations. 

Mr. Seidel is widely cited in the media.  He has here been frequently described as a leading force (such as in a description in a 2012 study which referred to Mr. Seidel as “probably the frontrunner in the industry.”).