Fortress dominates litigation financing – with money and intensity

Fortress Investment Group has risen to the top of the litigation finance industry. It has committed $6.6 billion to legal assets and another $2.9 billion to intellectual property. But beyond the money, the company’s secret to success may lie in its intensity and attention to detail.

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Emily Siegel, litigation finance reporter at Bloomberg Law, sat for nearly three hours with two Fortress executives: Jack Neumark, managing partner and co-CIO, and Eran Zur, head of intellectual property. They discussed the firm’s litigation financing activities in depth for the first time. Siegel also looked through UCC filings to find out where some of that money goes.

In this episode of our podcast On The Merits, Siegel describes what she’s learned about this mysterious company, who it works with, and how Zur’s article about patent trolls nearly a decade ago continues to haunt him.

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