Dai Wai Chin Feman is U.S. Chapter Chair of the International Legal Finance Association, the global trade association for the commercial litigation finance industry. Since 2018, he has served as an industry representative before legislatures, regulatory bodies, and judiciaries on issues spanning disclosure, tax, and foreign policy.
Dai Wai previously served as Managing Director at commercial litigation funder Parabellum Capital, where he originated, underwrote, and managed over 100 investments, including the funding of Atlas Data Privacy's landmark litigation under New Jersey's Daniel's Law. He is ranked Band 1 by Chambers for litigation funding and recognized by Lawdragon as a global leader in legal finance. He researches and writes extensively on litigation finance policy issues, including a multi-year study of empirical data in federal and state courts and a forthcoming paper proposing a model for court-approved class action litigation funding.
Before moving into litigation funding, Dai Wai was a litigation partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and New York University School of Law. Outside of his legal and policy work, Dai Wai serves as President of Two Tunnels Pet Recovery, a nonprofit that reunites lost pets with their families.
