PRINCIPALS
Timothy D. Scrantom
Managing Director
BlackRobe Capital Partners
Mr. Scrantom is a pioneer in the emerging field of litigation financing. In 2007, he was a co-founder of Juridica Investments Ltd, a London Stock Exchange/AIM-listed claims investment fund. In 2009, he conceived and launched the Law, Finance and Capital Markets program with the RAND Corporation.
Mr. Scrantom is an American lawyer and an English barrister-at-law (Gray’s Inn, currently non-practicing). Mr. Scrantom received a juris doctor (cum laude) from the University of Georgia and an LL.M. in International Business Law from the London School of Economics. During law school, Mr. Scrantom studied and received certificates at several other foreign universities, including The Hague Academy of International Law (Netherlands) and the Free University (Brussels). He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the states of South Carolina and Georgia.
Mr. Scrantom did his pupillage at Three Raymond Buildings, a leading set of international law barristers. Because of his work in the Caribbean, Mr. Scrantom has also been called to the bar as a barrister and solicitor before the courts of the seven countries of the Eastern Caribbean States (Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines), and is allowed to practice in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana and Belize.
He is widely published in the areas of international law, finance, and fiscal matters, and has appeared on international television and radio broadcasts (including ABC, CNN, BBC) and has been quoted or featured in international publications (Reuters, Associated Press, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and others). Mr. Scrantom has been a featured speaker at scores of conferences of professionals and government leaders in over a dozen countries.
Until 2007, Mr. Scrantom’s career was a blend of active private law practice, academics and innovation in the field of international law and business. His private law practice, which began at Clifford Chance in London, centered on disputes, audits and investigations in international finance. His accomplishments in this area are numerous. For example, in 1997, in connection with a multinational fraud case, Mr. Scrantom orchestrated the sequestration (Delaware) of $900,000,000 of corporate stock of a Fortune 50 company, believed at the time to be the largest asset freezing order in a private civil action in U.S. history. In 2002, Mr. Scrantom’s forensic international investigative work for a private client into offshore connections of U.S.-based charities led to uncovering and exposing the largest Islamic terrorist- sponsoring charity network in the U.S. In 2005, he was the principal strategist in settling the business claims pending in Scottish courts by Pan Am and a Lloyds run off company against the Government of Libya on account of the bombing of Pan Am 103. Over the years, Mr. Scrantom has been involved with many of the leading cases in the world concerning rogue nations and state sponsors of terrorism.