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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 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 Peter Shaw-Smith | November 9, 2023
The litigation financer that started out as a side-project to help a lawyer friend has turned into a multi-billion-dollar investment house which recently won a huge award.
6 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | September 8, 2023
Burford Capital stands to collect more than $5 billion after backing a moonshot case for investors burned by Argentina's nationalization of oil company YPF.
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By Saurabh Bhagotra | August 27, 2023
The Delhi High Court recently established a significant precedent by clarifying third-party funders cannot be held liable to pay adverse awards, and here's how it will change the landscape of arbitration in the country.
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By Jack Womack | August 18, 2023
A dramatic UK Supreme Court ruling in July asserted that litigation funding agreements are 'unenforceable' in competition cases.
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By Jack Womack | August 1, 2023
Some have downplayed the implications of the UK court's ruling, while others say the fallout could be 'massive' and will hurt consumers and help corporates.
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By Jack Womack | July 26, 2023
The country's top court has ruled that damages based agreements by litigation funders in competition cases are unenforceable.
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By Paul Hodkinson | July 20, 2023
Christopher Bogart says it is a 'tragedy' that the UK legal regulator has caused the country to miss the opportunities of market liberalization reforms.
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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.
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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.
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By Ross Todd | February 8, 2024
In a recent webcast hosted by Burford Capital, Co-COO Aviva Will said the publicly traded litigation finance firm has seen a recent uptick in interest from companies and large law firms.
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By Brian Lee | February 7, 2024
Trial lawyers say litigation funding can level the playing field for plaintiffs, while the report blamed the industry for more cases going to trial rather than settling.
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By Alex D'Elia | January 30, 2024
The firm's seventh annual Global Disputes Forecast is based on 600 senior legal and risk leaders from large organizations in the U.K., U.S., Singapore and Brazil.
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By Ross Todd | January 23, 2024
David Perla, the co-chief operating officer of Burford Capital, outlines where he sees artificial intelligence helping the litigation finance firm make more and better investments.
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By Aviva Will and David Perla | January 5, 2024
Continued economic uncertainty will have significant implications for businesses and the law firms that work with them in the year ahead. Based on Aviva Will and David Perla's conversations with clients through their work at the intersection of law and finance, in this article they review key trends to anticipate in 2024.
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By Kasvi Sehgal | November 20, 2023
The move comes after the Supreme Court's verdict in July regarding the £2 billion trucks cartel claim.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 15, 2023
On Tuesday, trustee Elissa Miller said she had agreed to pay $1.2 million to Stillwell Madison, a lender that had sued Girardi Keese in 2019 after he failed to pay back the full $5.1 million loan.
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By Keith Zullow and Yoko Bian | November 14, 2023
"Reputable commercial funders like LFG remain passive in disputes in which they have invested," Law Finance Group's Brendan Dyer told Goodwin's Keith Zullow and Yoko Bian.
6 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.
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