McDonald Hopkins Litigation Finance recognized in Chambers Litigation Support Guide 2025 Rankings
McDonald Hopkins is proud to announce that Marc Carmel, Ed Reilly and the Litigation Finance practice have been recognized by Chambers and Partners 2025 in this year’s Litigation Support Guide. For the second year in a row, this recognition reaffirms our position as leaders in the field of litigation finance across the nation. A Chambers ranking is a testament to a firm and its attorneys' exceptional performance in the most rigorous, independent, and comprehensive research process in the legal directory market.
Litigation Support Guide 2025: USA – Nationwide | Lawyer and Firm Rankings
Marc Carmel – Band 1: Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
Edward Reilly – Band 2: Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
McDonald Hopkins – Band 2: Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
McDonald Hopkins is home to one of the nation’s largest, most active, and well-regarded middle-market litigation finance practices. Co-chaired by Carmel, a former Director at a litigation funding firm, the team includes experienced and dedicated attorneys like Reily, who founded a litigation finance company before joining the firm. This unique depth of experience enables McDonald Hopkins to effectively advise clients on all aspects of litigation finance and serve as deal counsel in dozens of transactions each year.
McDonald Hopkins represents plaintiffs, including businesses of all sizes—from small and middle-market companies to Fortune 500 corporations—as well as law firms of various sizes and specialties seeking litigation funding for individual cases and portfolios of cases. Our services encompass finding funding, negotiating business arrangements, and documenting deals. Additionally, the firm’s litigation finance practice represents litigation funders in evaluating potential investments, negotiating, and documenting investments. They also assist investment firms deploying capital to commercial law firms, class action matters, mass tort spaces, and litigation finance firms in these areas of law.
“We appreciate Chambers’ recognition of our litigation finance group. We continue to enhance our deal team with resources to meet the ever-changing needs of the dynamic industry as McDonald Hopkins represents litigation funders, plaintiffs and law firms seeking funding, parties involved in transactions involving insurance, and other parties in the litigation funding industry,” said Marc Carmel.
More information is available on the Chambers' website.
