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 Ross Todd | February 3, 2025
Lula, a principal at litigation funder GLS Capital in Chicago and former Kirkland & Ellis litigation partner, chats about what he’s watching for in 2025.
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By Amanda O'Brien | January 27, 2025
In a Chapter 7 filing, AkinMears indicated it was indebted to a Virage Capital Management unit for over $115 million and Rocade Capital for another $86 million.
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By Jon Campisi | January 23, 2025
"People are realizing that, like all innovations, there's the early days and then there's an influx of people and money that want to try it, and then the better players sort of find their way to the top," said Burford Capital vice chair David Perla.
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By Debra Bordeaux | January 21, 2025
Success in this increasingly saturated and competitive market often requires reaching, attracting and acquiring large groups of clients with an at-scale marketing budget. At the same time, firms must maintain strategic and effective cash flow management due to extended litigation and delayed settlements.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 23, 2024
Lawyers are looking at emerging litigation over plastic pollution and video game addiction, while cases over diet drugs, "forever chemicals" and cow's milk-based infant formula for preemies continue to proliferate.
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By Alfred Olufemi | December 18, 2024
Burford Capital is expanding its focus to fund construction arbitration in the UAE, targeting high-value disputes as the sector experiences significant growth.
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By Brian Duffy | December 13, 2024
Over the last eight years (longer if one were to consider the events, initial inquiries, comments and processes that got us there), there has been a significant shift surrounding how to account for losses embedded in financial assets.
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By Jack Womack | December 11, 2024
Against the backdrop of PACCAR, the Mastercard settlement this month rattled a litigation market that is facing what some have indicated are near-existential threats.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 25, 2024
A federal rules committee last month agreed to look at whether to disclose litigation financing, and a bill is pending in Congress.
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By Jon Campisi | November 22, 2024
"We do not think or do not deem it necessary that the agreement itself should be disclosed," said Susanne Augenhofer, a professor at the Austrian-based University of Innsbruck and visiting professor at Yale Law School. "Yes to disclosure, but only to the identity of the funder and the fact that a third-party funder is involved."
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