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
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). ...
Why Litigation Finance?
Pretty much every litigator I know wants, or wants to learn more about, litigation finance. Everyone has a general sense that it helps clients get better access to the courts. Junior partners want it to build a plaintiff-side docket. Senior partners...
Texas’s new commercial courts: What litigators need to know
Texas is booming as people flock to the business-friendly state, looking for everything from quality of life to a more supportive business environment. Yet one of the strongest critiques from the Texas business community has remained: Slow dispute resolution for...