Stephanie Southwick

Stephanie Southwick is a Director at Burford Capital with responsibility for originating legal finance opportunities with US law firms and companies. She works closely with law firms to develop relationships and identify financing and risk management solutions that create value for their clients.

Before joining Burford, Stephanie sourced and evaluated litigation finance opportunities as a senior investment counselor at Law Finance Group and an investment manager at Omni Bridgeway. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in the Bay Area for 16 years, ultimately serving as managing partner of Greenfield Southwick LLP (formerly McGrane Greenfield), where she represented clients in complex commercial litigation matters and oversaw firm operations. She remains active in the Bay Area legal community, has taught at Santa Clara Law School and served on the executive committee of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court.

Stephanie earned her JD with honors from The George Washington University Law School and her BA from the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies.