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Burford Capital Limited
18 January 2024
18 January 2024
BURFORD CAPITAL APPOINTS PAMELA CORRIE AS AN INDEPENT
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset
management firm focused on law, is pleased to announce the
appointment of Pamela Beth Corrie as an independent non-executive
director.
Ms. Corrie (66) has significant experience at the nexus of
finance and law. She is a seasoned Board director with insight
garnered from involvement with a number of growth companies
operating at varying stages of development. In addition, she brings
expertise in providing oversight of and advisory services on the
design and execution of corporate change programs as both an
independent director and counsel. For 12 years, Ms. Corrie was a
General Counsel at GE Capital, where she served as the chief legal
advisor to the risk organization in the corporate leasing and
lending division and oversaw hundreds of restructurings, corporate
ombudsman investigations, bankruptcies and litigations. Ms. Corrie
previously spent ten years practicing law at Weil, Gotshal &
Manges, where she represented large corporate debtors in Chapter 11
proceedings as well as clients in all phases of restructuring,
bankruptcy counseling and litigation. More recently, Ms. Corrie was
a Managing Director in the Financial Advisory division of Carl
Marks Advisors focused on restructuring matters. She has a
bachelor's degree from Stanford University and earned her JD from
the University of California, Los Angeles.
The board of directors of Burford Capital Limited has determined
that Ms. Corrie meets the requirements for independence under the
applicable rules and regulations of the US Securities and Exchange
Commission and the listing standards of the New York Stock
Exchange. Ms. Corrie will serve as a member of the Audit Committee
and the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Other required disclosures
Regulatory disclosures in accordance with Rule 17 Schedule Two
paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Current Directorships Former Directorship/Partnerships Held
/ Partnerships in the Past 5 Years
AIG Financial Products* 20230930Butterfly-37, LLLC
IFit Health and Fitness Altera Infrastructure Holdings LLC*
Inc. AM Castle
Spark Networks SE AmSurg HoldCo, LLC*
AmSurg, LLC*
BBB Canada LP Inc.*
BBB Canada Ltd.
BBB Value Services Inc.*
BBBY CF LLC
BBBY Management Corporation*
BBBYTF LLC*
Bed 'n Bath Stores Inc.*
Bed Bath & Beyond California Limited
Liability Company*
Bed Bath & Beyond Canada L.P.
BlockFi Wallet LLC*
Boxed, Inc.*
Buy Buy Baby, Inc.*
BWAO LLC*
Chef C Holdings LLC*
Decorist, LLC
Harmon Stores, Inc.*
Highland Capital Funds Companies(1)
Katerra, Inc.*
Le Tote/Lord & Taylor*
Liberty Procurement Co. Inc.
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.*
Prescient Co Inc.
Sustainable Restaurant Group*
Tempel Steel Company
Tristrata Group*
YouFit Health Clubs, LLC*
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* Each of these companies has filed for bankruptcy. Ms. Corrie's
appointment to these companies as a director has been in her
capacity as a restructuring professional.
(1) Independent trustee for the following funds: NexPoint Event
Driven Fund (f/k/a Highland Healthcare Opportunities Fund),
NexPoint Merger Arbitration Fund, Highland Income Fund, Highland
Global Allocation Fund, Highland Small-Cap Equity Fund,
Highland/iBoxx Senior Loan ETF.
Ms. Corrie currently holds 2,074 ordinary shares, nil par value,
in Burford Capital Limited.
Save as disclosed above, there are no further disclosures to be
made in accordance with Rule 17 or Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules
for Companies.
For further information, please contact:
Burford Capital Limited
For investor and analyst inquiries:
Robert Bailhache, Head of Investor Relations, +44 (0)20 3530
EMEA and Asia - email 2023
Jim Ballan, Head of Investor Relations, Americas
- email +1 (646) 793 9176
For press inquiries:
David Helfenbein, Vice President, Public Relations
- email +1 (212) 235 6824
+44 (0)20 7260
Deutsche Numis - NOMAD and Joint Broker 1000
Giles Rolls
Charlie Farquhar
+44 (0)20 7029
Jefferies International Limited - Joint Broker 8000
Graham Davidson
James Umbers
+44 (0)20 3207
Berenberg - Joint Broker 7800
Toby Flaux
James Thompson
Yasmina Benchekroun
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset
management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation
finance and risk management , asset recovery and a wide range of
legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded
on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock
Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms
around the world from its offices in New York, London, Chicago,
Washington, DC, Singapore, Dubai, Sydney and Hong Kong.
For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com .
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other
securities of Burford.
This announcement does not constitute an offer of any Burford
private fund. Burford Capital Investment Management LLC, which acts
as the fund manager of all Burford private funds, is registered as
an investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange
Commission. The information provided in this announcement is for
informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of
future results. The information contained in this announcement is
not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any securities (including, without
limitation, interests or shares in any of Burford private funds).
Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by means of a final
confidential private placement memorandum and other offering
documents.
Forward-looking statements
This announcement contains "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, regarding assumptions, expectations, projections,
intentions and beliefs about future events. These statements are
intended as "forward-looking statements". In some cases,
predictive, future-tense or forward-looking words such as "aim",
"anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect",
"forecast", "guidance", "intend", "may", "plan", "potential",
"predict", "projected", "should" or "will" or the negative of such
terms or other comparable terminology are intended to identify
forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of
identifying such statements. In addition, Burford and its
representatives may from time to time make other oral or written
statements that are forward-looking, including in its periodic
reports that Burford files with, or furnishes to, the US Securities
and Exchange Commission , other information made available to
Burford's security holders and other written materials. By their
nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors because they relate to events and
depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future.
Burford cautions that forward-looking statements are not guarantees
of future performance and are based on numerous assumptions ,
expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs and that
Burford's actual results of operations, including its financial
position and liquidity, and the development of the industry in
which it operates, may differ materially from (and be more negative
than) those made in, or suggested by, the forward-looking
statements contained in this announcement. Significant factors that
may cause actual results to differ from those Burford expects
include, among others, those discussed under "Risk Factors" in
Burford's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December
31, 2022 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on
May 16, 2023 and other reports or documents that Burford files
with, or furnishes to, the US Securities and Exchange Commission
from time to time . In addition, even if Burford's results of
operations, including its financial position and liquidity, and the
development of the industry in which it operates are consistent
with the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement,
those results of operations or developments may not be indicative
of results of operations or developments in subsequent periods.
Except as required by law, Burford undertakes no obligation to
update or revise the forward-looking statements contained in this
announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise.
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