A healthy increase in litigation-funding giant Burford Capital’s commitments and deployments from 2020 to 2021 offers a fresh sign that companies’ appetite for third-party finance is steadily growing now that the disruptions to the court system of 2020 are in the rearview mirror.

The company, which trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange, committed $1.1 billion to new matters over the past year, an increase of over 45% from 2020, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday. Deployments of capital grew at a similarly brisk pace in the same interval, climbing over 41% to $841 million.