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Regulatory and legal issues surrounding the burgeoning litigation finance market, as well as deals, financials, and analysis of how litigation funding is changing the practice of law.
By Christopher Bogart and Jordan Licht, Burford Capital | July 18, 2023
With input from the SEC, Burford has built a valuation approach that marries case-driven valuation to duration and the time value of money, which can be adopted by the wider legal finance sector.
5 minute read
By Linda A. Thompson | July 5, 2023
The case, which has been fought out in Dutch, French and Spanish courts, has pitted the government of Malaysia and two leading European firms against one of the world's largest litigation funders and a UK barristers' chambers.
7 minute read
By Linda A. Thompson | June 29, 2023
Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain have emerged as key jurisdictions, while firms such as Linklaters, Dentons and Freshfields feel they are well placed to win work.
8 minute read
By Jessica Seah | Brian Yap | April 25, 2023
At least 80 Credit Suisse investors in Singapore are in talks to sue the Swiss government over its decision to write down $17 billion of Credit Suisse Additional Tier-1 bonds. Lawyers in Japan are also considering filing lawsuits to recoup investor losses from the sale of the bonds.
7 minute read
By Tom Parry | April 19, 2023
Funders, brokers, law firms and distributors are just some of the drivers behind the recent tide of UK class actions. Law.com International takes you on the trail of opt-out cases and attempts to discover who the real winners are.
9 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | April 4, 2023
Burford Capital could see a payout in the billions of U.S. dollars after backing a moonshot case for investors burned by Argentina's nationalization of oil company YPF.
3 minute read
By Anne Bagamery | March 6, 2023
As Europe opens its arms, cautiously, to mass litigation and class actions, litigation funders are seeing opportunity—and ramping up their plans to seize it.
4 minute read
By Rose Walker | February 24, 2023
The London Lawyer Briefing: Honesty goes a long way in this industry, as a few refreshing interviews this week have shown.
4 minute read
By Becky Pritchard | February 23, 2023
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has gone from being a backwater to being a major centre for modern disputes, hearing cases that could generate billions in legal fees. But an in-depth analysis by Law.com International has found many are unhappy with the new world, saying the ultimate beneficiaries are not the claimants.
12 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | February 15, 2023
The £5 billion claim is one of many competition-related group actions being brought in the UK.
3 minute read
By Peter Shaw-Smith | November 13, 2023
Burford Capital believes the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are well placed to need more of its financing options.
6 minute read
By Brian Lee | October 25, 2023
Some smaller DA offices that are budgeted for five or six ADAs are down to three or four, the association president said.
6 minute read
By Jimmy Hoover | October 23, 2023
"This is a fascinating and really fun field," said former clerk Travis Lenkner.
9 minute read
By Mark Eveland | October 20, 2023
Because loss portfolio transfers generally transfer risk, and specifically remove liabilities from corporate balance sheets, organizations and insurers should consider loss portfolio transfers as a creative tool to resolve large risk pools in a fair and efficient manner.
9 minute read
By Michael A. Mora | October 18, 2023
"Our intent is to go full steam ahead with the enforcement of millions of dollars against Mr. Horn and hundreds of thousands of dollars against Mr. Galle under the New York Convention." said Edward K. Lenci, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson
4 minute read
By Ross Todd | October 11, 2023
In a roundtable published by litigation funder Burford Capital, leaders at Morgan Lewis, Gibson Dunn, Mayer Brown and Proskauer discuss the client- and firm-side motivations behind the growth in Big Law contingency practices.
6 minute read
By Amanda O'Brien | October 5, 2023
When Philadelphia-based Sacks Weston declared bankruptcy in August, it became the latest firm to do business with Virage Capital and then hit the skids.
11 minute read
By Amanda O'Brien | September 13, 2023
A bankruptcy judge found the firm could continue to use the approximately $98,000 left in its operating and payroll accounts for now. Litigation funder Virage Capital, owed $14 million, wants the funds to be categorized as cash collateral.
3 minute read
By Alex Anteau | September 12, 2023
"If I thought King & Spalding had a great lawsuit, I would have expected to see Jim Butler sitting there because there's so much money," said defendant-appellee attorney J. Randolph "Randy" Evans of Squire Patton Boggs
6 minute read
By Emily Cousins | September 12, 2023
The defendant said if the court enforced the ketubah, it would "violate the establishment clause by entangling the trial court in religious matters," the opinion said.
4 minute read
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