W. Tyler Perry
Legal Director
W. Tyler Perry is a Legal Director at Certum Group, where he sources and evaluates litigation finance and insurance opportunities from the country’s leading lawyers and claimholders.
EDUCATION
Tyler is an honors graduate of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he served as a notes editor on the Northwestern Law Review, and New York University, where he served as president of his class.
EXPERIENCE AND RECOGNITION
A former law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Tyler combines global defense firm experience from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and plaintiff-side experience from Reid Collins & Tsai to identify and capitalize on high value litigations.
In 2024, Tyler was selected by Lawdragon as a Global 100 Leader in Litigation Finance. In 2023, Tyler was selected by Best Lawyers as “One to Watch” and his work on high-dollar plaintiff cases has been covered by the legal press.
Tyler spent significant portions of his childhood in China and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.
Recent Articles by W. Tyler Perry
Judge Bibas’ Recent Opinion in Design With Friends v. Target Continues the Trend of Courts Limiting Discovery into Funding Arrangements
One of the biggest open questions in litigation finance is the degree to which funding documents and related communications are discoverable in funded litigation. As of last week, the industry had received helpful guidance from trial courts, from legislatures, and...
Louisiana’s New Litigation Finance Disclosure Statute and the Institutional Preference for Plaintiff Firms Over Litigation Funders
Litigation funding has grown tremendously over the last 10 years and has naturally garnered significant interest from politicians and the public at large. As this awareness has increased, one of the more interesting consequent proposals has been the introduction of...
Litigation Finance and Your Career
Back when law was a profession and not a business, landing a job at an established firm reasonably set you up for a long and fruitful career. Firms had institutional clients. Lateral moves among stable firms were rare. And partners cared about...
Key Considerations in Patent Funding and Insurance
The most consistently satisfied lawyers I know, whether at a firm or in house, are patent lawyers. In Big Law, their world seems to involve a constant stream of high-impact litigations and transactions between corporate titans. On the boutique side, they pursue...
Patent Litigation Funding and Insurance: What to Know and How to Succeed
When I was in law school, my business associations professor began the semester by telling the class that debt and equity are essentially the same thing. In her view, both involve money going from one organization to another (i.e., the parties exchange “capital” or...
How to Choose a Funder
One of my favorite concepts from the first year of law school is the idea that property is a “bundle of sticks”—i.e., “a collection of individual rights which, in certain combinations, constitute property.” United States v. Craft, 535 U.S. 274, 278 (2002). ...