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IMF (Australia) Ltd. pioneered the field of third-party litigation finance down under. Now it's hired a former director of Credit Suisse's litigation funding unit to launch a New York subsidiary, Bentham Capital LLC.
The securities class action heavyweight and former Bernstein Litowitz partner is jumping into third-party litigation finance, and he says his new firm, BlackRobe Capital, will take a more active role in cases than most funders have in the past.
Which Firms Are Using Litigation Funding?
A closer look at which Am Law 200 firms are using litigation funding. It's not the ones you might think.In the hush-hush world of corporate litigation finance, any information about who's looking for outside funding is news--especially when it turns out to be one of the most innovative GCs in the business.
Litigation Finance Startup Snags Retired Simpson Thacher Partner
Michael Chepiga, who retired from Simpson Thacher on Jan. 1 after 30 years with the firm, will join BlackRobe Capital Partners as a managing director this month. A New York-based private investment firm specializing in litigation finance, BlackRobe was started last year by former plaintiffs lawyer and ex-federal prosecutor Sean Coffey.View more book results for the query "Burford Capital"
Foreign Environmental Claims in U.S. Federal Courts
In his International Environmental Law column, Stephen L. Kass, a partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, write that within the past month, there have been major developments in three unrelated cases - one in the U.S. Supreme Court, one in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and one in the Southern District of New York - that both narrow opportunities for foreign plaintiffs to seek federal judicial relief for environmental injury abroad and demonstrate why the courts should be more open to at least some of those claims.Do you have an opinion on this hot topic? If so, the ABA's Committee on Ethics wants to hear from you.
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