The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2024

Burford Capital CEO Chris Bogart walks Motley Fool analyst Rich Griefner through the world of legal financing, his company's competitive advantages, and a high-stakes case with Argentina. We don't talk about legal financing too much on the show because there's only one publicly traded company that does it. Jason, thanks for joining me.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

So I did my thesis on how leveraged buyouts work from the legal and the business side. And Goldman was the size of a law firm back then. And I mean, it was literally like the size of a law firm, not a giant global institution. So I thought, well, what an interesting idea. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

Any kind, collateral, non-collateral. They don’t have collateral. Now does the FDIC even know how much risk they’re bearing 0 when all the assets are so encumbered that they’re all pledged as collateral? How do they — how does the corporation, as a legal person, interact with the rule of law in general?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

He is the founder of MarketCounsel, which is one of the leading firms in that space, as well as the Hamburger Law Firm. And so, as advisors look to leave these big enterprises and go independent, one of the biggest things we need to train them on is the distinction between compliance, legal, and risk. HAMBURGER: Exactly.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And if somebody has a big loss and it drops way below the, the collateral they put up, that loss gets spread out. If someone loses money, we liquidate the collateral, they’re done. So you’re, you’re doing futures trading and every customer effectively is putting up money. We’re not gonna have losses here.

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