Kelly Daley

Founder at Celsia Capital

Speaker

Kelly Daley is the founder and principal of Celsia Capital, a dedicated litigation finance advisory firm. Celsia partners with hedge funds, multi-strats, and institutional managers — bringing allocation strategy, sourcing depth, underwriting rigor, and market access directly to capital that’s ready to deploy. Celsia leverages a decade of industry experience and deep relationships with the legal departments of Fortune 200 companies to deliver high-conviction legal asset opportunities straight to investors.

For the past decade, Kelly was a Managing Director at Burford Capital and Gerchen Capital Partners where she was responsible for sourcing and executing new investments, focused on corporate finance secured by contingent legal assets. Before she entered the litigation finance industry, Kelly was a senior litigator at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Her practice focused on the litigation needs of media and technology companies, including intellectual property litigation, contract disputes, content protection and product liability. She had previously worked at MoloLamken LLP and McDermott Will & Emery and served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable D. Michael Fisher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Kelly received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University