Nick Rowles-Davies

Nick Rowles-Davies is a key originating leader and author in the litigation funding industry (also know as the legal finance industry), a seasoned executive at capital market firms, and lawyer. He is a frequent media commentator on litigation finance and wider legal matters.

Nick Rowles-Davies is the founder and CEO of Lexolent, the world’s first globally coordinated origination network for legal finance professionals. Lexolent provides a unique platform and marketplace where capital meets litigation origination opportunities. The companies tag line is capital meets origination. Lexolent also created the first ever UAE-based litigation fund, the Lexolent Litigation Fund 1 SP.

Nick Rowles-Davies originally graduated from The College of Law in Chester. He is acclaimed for leading and sophisticating the transformation of the litigation funding industry in the UK and across the common law world globally. He guided the evolution of litigation funding from traditional third-party funding to litigation finance and, ultimately, to a robust corporate finance solution.

He served as Executive Vice Chairman of LCM from 2018–2021, the founder and CEO of Chancery Capital Advisors from 2017–2018, and he led Burford Capital PLC globally outside of the Americas as Managing Director and was a director at Burford Capital until 2016. Prior, Nick was the co-founder of Vannin Capital (2010–2014) and a Partner at Bridgehouse Partners (2004–2011).

Due his global reach and impact in the litigation finance and global legal sectors, Nick is a regular public speaker and media commentator on the global legal matters, the litigation world, the costs regime, litigation finance, legal expenses insurance, and a wide variety of general legal matters.

Nick is the author of the landmark industry text Third-Party Litigation Funding, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He is a contributing author to many other books.

He is also a Solicitor in England, Wales, and the British Virgin Islands and is an accredited, seasoned mediator in commercial and civil litigation issues (including banking related disputes). He is also an expert witness.