Craig Batchelor

Craig Batchelor is a Director at Burford Capital with responsibility for portfolio management within Burford’s US commercial legal finance business. He focuses on managing legal risk across Burford’s portfolio of complex commercial litigation matters.

Prior to joining Burford, Craig was a vice president at Barclays, where he managed a portfolio of significant commercial litigation, internal investigations and regulatory matters. Earlier in his career, he practiced at Cravath, defending financial institutions and public companies in securities, antitrust, bankruptcy and M&A matters, before joining Latham & Watkins, where he represented banks, hedge funds and private equity firms in complex civil litigation.

Craig earned his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar, and has an MA from Yale University.