Christy Searl

Christy Searl is a director of Burford Capital LLC's underwriting and investment arm in New York and has expertise in bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring. Most recently, she was a senior vice president in the Office of the General Counsel at the Lehman Estate, and before that, she was with the Litigation Group at Lehman Brothers and was an associate at Chadbourne & Park LLP. Having managed scores of  U.S. and global litigation and workout matters at the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate over nearly a decade, Ms. Searl provides innovative solutions to debtors, creditors and professionals in the bankruptcy space. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.