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Mick Smith, Partner & Co-FounderMick Smith, Head of Origination and Structuring

Mick Smith started his working life as a solicitor at Freshfields, in London and Madrid. He then began his career in finance, working in a variety of investment banking roles at Chase Manhattan, Credit Agricole Lazard FP and Dresdner Kleinwort.

Mick is responsible for deal origination and execution at Calunius. This typically sees him sourcing and analysing investments in complex cross-border litigation and arbitration claims, spanning common and civil law.  More often than not, these will be commercial cases being heard under ICC, LCIA or Swiss rules, or investment treaty claims (ICSID/BIT).

Mick co-founded Calunius (with Mark Wells) in 2007. He has a degree in Mathematics and Law from Churchill College, Cambridge University.

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Address:
Calunius Capital LLP
11 Haymarket
London SW1Y 4BP
United Kingdom

Direct phone: +44 20 3142 8339.

Email: mick.smith@calunius.com

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Calunius Capital in the media - 2012

The third way

The Lawyer - 6 February 2012

Third party litigation funding was the topic discussed by The Lawyer’s panel this week and Calunius’ Christian Stuerwald was asked for his reaction.

Litigation funders respond to US calls for increased regulation

Edward Machin, Commercial Dispute Resolution - 3 February 2012

All hell broke loose last week in the world of litigation funding. There was a debate in the House of Lords on the Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill which included half an hour on litigation funding. This was instigated by an extraordinary lobbying effort by none other than the US Chamber of Commerce, the mouthpiece of Global Big Business and Enemy of Access to Justice, whose main purpose in life is to preserve the inbuilt advantage in litigation held by the biggest of businesses. The US Chamber rightly perceives litigation funding and the Access to Justice that it gives to SMEs as a serious challenge to the US Chamber’s members. The Chamber’s position has stimulated a series of replies from litigation funders. Here you will find a selection starting with articles in CDR (above) and Rachel Rothwell’s article in Law Society Gazette (below). A copy of the Parliamentary Briefing prepared by the Association of Litigation Funders of England & Wales can also be found below.

Storm raging over investing in litigation

Rachel Rothwell - Law Society Gazette - 7 February 2012

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