The International Legal Finance Association (ILFA) has honored legal technology firm Darrow with its inaugural Most Innovative Legal Technology Company award, recognizing the company's groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence-powered legal intelligence.
Transforming Legal Risk Assessment
Presented on November 19, 2025, this prestigious award from the global voice of commercial legal finance celebrates technology that has fundamentally transformed how legal disputes are assessed, underwritten, and managed throughout the litigation finance ecosystem.
Mathew Keshav Lewis, Chief Revenue Officer and US General Manager at Darrow, accepted the award alongside Roy Ben-Ami, Head of Capital Markets, during ceremonies that included ILFA leadership Paul Kong, Executive Director and President, and Rupert Cunningham, Director.
AI-Driven Legal Intelligence in Action
Darrow's platform represents a significant advancement in legal technology, analyzing over 5 million data points monthly from diverse sources including public records, legal databases, and social media. This comprehensive analysis identifies potential legal violations across multiple domains including mass torts, antitrust, data privacy, consumer protection, ERISA, securities, and fraud.
The company's remarkable track record includes identifying more than $18 billion in potential litigation opportunities over the past five years. Many of these cases, developed in collaboration with leading U.S. law firms, have progressed to successful filings and settlements.
Practical Innovation with Measurable Impact
"At its core, legal intelligence is about helping firms make better decisions, earlier," explained Mathew Keshav Lewis. "We're applying advanced AI to improve how cases are valued and underwritten so firms and funders can allocate resources more effectively, move with greater confidence, and ultimately serve plaintiffs better."
Darrow's underwriting tool combines predictive AI models with expert legal analysis and insights drawn from over 105,000 historical cases. This powerful combination streamlines how law firms assess case merit and how litigation funders evaluate investment risk.
Paul Kong, ILFA's Executive Director and President, emphasized the practical value of Darrow's innovation: "Darrow's work addresses a clear need in our industry. Their AI-driven approach is the kind of practical innovation that improves decisions, not just processes."
The platform's sophisticated technology aggregates disparate legal and market data to help legal teams identify patterns that might indicate actionable violations—whether coordinated pricing schemes, environmental harm clusters, or corporate conflicts of interest. The AI system is specifically designed to surface issues that would be difficult, if not impossible, to detect through conventional methods.
This recognition from ILFA underscores the growing importance of artificial intelligence in transforming traditional legal practices and litigation finance, delivering measurable value to funders, law firms, and other stakeholders throughout the legal ecosystem.
