Eva Shang on Litigation Finance Funds
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Barry Ritholtz speaks to Eva Shang, co-founder, general partner and chief executive officer of Legalist Inc., an institutional alternative asset management firm. She leads the company's 35-person team of engineers, attorneys and analysts, and she is also a member of the firm's valuation and investment committees and board of directors. Before co-founding Legalist at 20, Eva studied economics at Harvard College.
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| 1:00.0 | This week on the podcast, what a fascinating conversation. |
| 1:04.0 | Eva Shang co-founded legalist while she was in Harvard and then subsequently dropped out |
| 1:11.0 | with her co-founder to launch what essentially became an alternative |
| 1:16.0 | credit fund that specialized in litigation financing along with two other types of credit related to litigation outcomes. |
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