The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Litigation Funder as “External CFO”

William Marra of Validity Finance argues that attorney-client privilege should protect a company’s conversations with external litigation funders about the pursuit of a legal claim no less than its conversations with internal executives performing the same functions, as litigation funders perform functions similar to that of a CFO or an external consultant for claimholders that are not well-capitalized and cannot self-fund their litigations.