Leslie Perrin

Chairman, Calunius Capital

Leslie Perrin has been the Chairman of Calunius Capital LLP since January 2009. Calunius acts as the investment adviser to the Calunius Funds, market leaders in the funding of large scale international arbitration and litigation disputes. Leslie has also been the Chairman of the Association of Litigation Funders of England and Wales, since its establishment in November 2011 and is deeply involved in the development of litigation funding as an international phenomenon. Leslie has more than 30 years' experience of litigation markets, having been successively head of litigation, managing partner and senior partner at international law firm, Osborne Clarke. For 9 years he was the Senior Independent Director of DAS UK, the UK market leader in legal expenses insurance. Leslie was named in the most recent Times Law 100, said by The Times to be “those lawyers we believe to be the most influential in society right now".