Christopher Bogart
Chief Executive Officer, Burford Capital
Christopher Bogart is Chief Executive Officer, a director and co-founder of Burford, and he also serves as a member of its Management and Commitments Committees. Under his leadership, Burford has become the largest global provider of legal finance. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the world’s most influential decision makers and as a top 10 legal innovator by the Financial Times. He is also the only person to be ranked by Chambers in Band 1 in both the US and the UK in their inaugural litigation finance rankings.
Before co-founding Burford, Bogart held numerous senior executive positions with Time Warner, including as Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Cable Ventures and Time Warner Entertainment Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was a litigator at Cravath, Chief Executive Officer of Glenavy Capital, and an investment banker with what is now JPMorgan Chase.
