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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 Niesche | October 23, 2020
Herbert Smith Freehills, which represented the defendant, expects more class actions to go to trial.
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By Jennigay Coetzer | October 21, 2020
The case, supported by litigation funders, is being brought on behalf of 100,000 women and children.
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By Dan Packel | October 19, 2020
The litigation finance giant used the opportunity to put forth its latest research report showing a steadily growing appetite for funding across the legal industry.
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By Anne Bagamery | Linda A. Thompson | Eva von Schaper | October 13, 2020
Labor and insurance disputes came first, and litigators expect many more cases and causes of action as the crisis drags on.
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By Christopher Niesche | October 1, 2020
They are accusing the government of making changes to pander to the business lobby.
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By Dan Packel | October 1, 2020
Investors on London's AIM exchange reacted positively to the news that the funder's investments in recent years had started yielding a payoff.
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By Dan Packel | September 8, 2020
The International Legal Finance Association expects to spend roughly $1 million in its first year to elevate the profile of the industry in the face of attacks by business groups worldwide.
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By Meganne Tillay | August 26, 2020
The Cayman Islands-based litigation funder allegedly owes over £100 million to over 500 investors.
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By Hannah Roberts | August 13, 2020
Two former DLA partners have set up a new fund, Aldersgate Funding, which will work with the firm and Litigation Capital Management via a new alliance.
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By Christopher Niesche | July 17, 2020
The litigation funder has made an equity investment in Tokyo-based startup Japan Legal Network.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Scott Graham | December 1, 2022
Delaware U.S. District Chief Judge Colm Connolly is getting plenty of support in his aggressive bid to enforce compliance with ownership and funding disclosure orders. Connolly is speaking up for himself too.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Scott Graham | November 21, 2022
The appellate court temporarily stayed Connolly's order requiring information about retention letters and settlement agreements. The documents could show whether Mavexar LLC is acting only as a consultant or as an undisclosed third-party funder in a string of patent infringement suits.
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By Scott Graham | November 21, 2022
The appellate court temporarily stayed Connolly's order requiring information about retention letters and settlement agreements. The documents could show whether Mavexar LLC is acting only as a consultant or as an undisclosed third-party funder in a string of patent infringement suits.
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By Mark N. Klein | November 14, 2022
The fact that remaining in the class is still the default is not surprising. However, this is arguably changing and will continue to do so as GCs and CFOs face growing economic pressure to maximize the value they extract from their companies' litigation assets.
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By Joshua Libling | October 31, 2022
Traditional lenders have been willing to treat consistently generated fee revenue as an income stream against which to lend. But it is only more recently that the individual litigations themselves have begun to be treated as assets that can be monetized. This process, litigation finance, is by now familiar, but below I discuss the next step for that industry: financing the business of law itself.
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By Raychel Lean | October 11, 2022
What characteristics separate the fund-worthy cases from the rest? That's a question that commercial litigation finance company LexShares tackles with a new report that analyzed more than 30,000 federal and state cases from across the country.
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By Michael A. Mora | September 28, 2022
Judith Paris-Pinder claimed she would use investor funds to extend loans to attorneys representing litigation plaintiffs who had settled their claims but were still awaiting settlement payments from the insurance companies.
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By Dan Roe | September 27, 2022
A fault line has emerged between company co-founders Kyle Roche and Emin Gün Sirer. And experts question the incentives created by a "stock market" that sells tradable shares in lawsuits.
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By Ross Todd | September 13, 2022
A new report out this morning from Burford Capital finds that companies that opt out of class actions most or all of the time are three times more likely to use legal finance than those that tend to remain in the class.
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By Cedra Mayfield | August 16, 2022
Appellate courts and judicial circuits looking to take advantage of federal grant money offered through the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan Act can submit applications starting Sept. 15.
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