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Ralph Sutton

Founder & CEO · Validity Finance

Professional base: New York, NY·Funding & banking

Biography

Litigation finance leader with trial practice and investment experience, including Credit Suisse litigation funding and Bentham’s U.S. business.

Why get to know them

Capital-market perspective, underwriting expertise, and funder relationships.

Career and connections

Trial lawyer; Credit Suisse Litigation Risk Strategies; Bentham U.S.

MTMP evidence & verification notes

MTMP link unverified

Personal attendance unverified; current mass tort-specific mandate not established.

Speaker listings indicate scheduled participation, not confirmed attendance. Company exhibitor listings do not establish that an individual attended.

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Legal funding entrepreneur with multiple law firm finance businesses and longstanding mass tort financing experience.

Law firm lendingmass tort portfolio funding
38

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Plainview, NY · Funding & banking

Co-founded BFG and leads its legal lending division, arranging financing for plaintiff practices.

Law firm financelending brokeragestructured financing
49

Business Funding Group

Plainview, NY · Funding & banking

Finance executive overseeing BFG strategy, with prior healthcare company and investment banking leadership.

Law firm lending strategyfinancing relationships
58

Andrew Sagliocca

Vice chairman, CEO & president

Esquire Bank

Jericho, NY · Funding & banking

Leads a bank serving contingency-fee law firms, with prior banking and accounting experience.

Contingency-fee firm bankingcreditlitigation finance