Marla Decker has been a Managing Director of Lake Whillans Litigation Finance since 2015. Lake Whillans is a commercial litigation finance firm providing funding for companies in litigation or arbitration (both domestic and internationally). Between 2007 and 2015, Marla was a litigator at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where she represented financial institutions and major corporations in complex commercial litigations and government investigations. Prior to attending law school, Marla was a senior consultant at WinMill Software where she provided software development services to an array of companies. Marla has a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell University.