COLUMN-Burford, Gerchen Keller merger: turning point for litigation funding?: Frankel

NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Christopher Bogart, the CEO of the litigation financier Burford Capital, has a five-year plan. Within that time frame, Bogart told me Wednesday, he believes the litigation funding industry will become so well-established that the CFO and general counsel of every major company contemplating big-ticket litigation will engage in financial analysis - just as companies do when they are deciding how to fund tech investments. Sophisticated corporations, in Bogart's assessme