A handful of major companies are trying to defend high-stakes litigation with third-party funding, it has emerged, in a pioneering move that could potentially revolutionise commercial litigation in the UK. Specialist funding broker Calunius Capital is already placing one large UK corporate - a defendant in a legal action - with a funder to offset a proportion of the company's risk.
April 17, 2008 at 08:03 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
A handful of major companies are trying to defend high-stakes litigation with third-party funding, it has emerged, in a pioneering move that could potentially revolutionise commercial litigation in the UK.
Specialist funding broker Calunius Capital is already placing one large UK corporate – a defendant in a legal action – with a funder to offset a proportion of the company’s risk.
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