Burford Capital Unveils New Executive Compensation Plan Focused on Carried Interest

Reuters
2025.11.25 22:27
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Burford Capital Ltd. announced new employment agreements for CEO Christopher P. Bogart and CIO Jonathan T. Molot, effective January 1, 2026. The agreements include severance terms and replace annual bonuses with carried interest payments based on cash gains. This change follows feedback from Institutional Shareholder Services at the May 2025 annual meeting.

Burford Capital Ltd. has announced new amended and restated employment agreements for Chief Executive Officer Christopher P. Bogart and Chief Investment Officer Jonathan T. Molot, effective January 1, 2026. Under the revised terms, if either executive is terminated without cause or resigns for good reason outside of a change in control period, they will each receive a cash severance equal to two times the sum of their annual base salary plus $2 million. The updated agreements follow negative feedback from Institutional Shareholder Services at the company’s May 2025 annual meeting and eliminate the annual bonus in favor of formulaic carried interest payments based on cash gains. Disclaimer: This news brief was created by Public Technologies (PUBT) using generative artificial intelligence. While PUBT strives to provide accurate and timely information, this AI-generated content is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as financial, investment, or legal advice. Burford Capital Ltd. published the original content used to generate this news brief via EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Ref. ID: 0001714174-25-000199), on November 25, 2025, and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. © Copyright 2025 - Public Technologies (PUBT) Original Document: here