Dai Wai Chin Feman leads Parabellum Capital’s commercial litigation vertical. He is one of three individuals in the US ranked Band 1 by Chambers for litigation funding and one of The Legal 500’s eight global “Industry Leaders.” He has also been recognized by Leaders League as one of the leading litigation funding professionals in the US, by Lawdragon as a global leader in legal finance, and by Lexology as the inaugural winner of the Client Choice Award for third-party funding in the US. He frequently speaks and comments on developing issues in the industry. He has lectured at Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Georgetown Law, and has authored industry commentary for Bloomberg Law, Law360, Carrier Management, ACC Docket, Corporate Counsel, Assured Research, and The Law Reviews.
Dai Wai also manages Parabellum’s public policy initiatives. He is a member of the US Regional Committee of the International Legal Finance Association (ILFA) and coordinator of ILFA’s global best practices working group, and he has testified before multiple legislative bodies on matters related to legal finance. He also served on the New York City Bar Association’s Litigation Funding Working Group, is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Litigation Committee, contributed to the Government Accountability Office’s study of litigation funding, is an alumnus of the New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee, and participated on the Uniform Law Commission's Third-Party Funding of Litigation Study Committee.
Prior to joining Parabellum, Dai Wai was a litigation partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. He received his A.B., cum laude, from Georgetown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.
