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India as an Emerging Hub for International Arbitration

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.
4 minute read

International Edition

Slater and Gordon Secures £33M Capital Injection from Litigation Funder Harbour

A dramatic UK Supreme Court ruling in July asserted that litigation funding agreements are 'unenforceable' in competition cases.
2 minute read

International Edition

'Not Jumping Out of the Window Just Yet': Industry Reacts to Supreme Court's Litigation Funding Verdict

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.
5 minute read

International Edition

UK's Supreme Court Strikes Blow to Litigation Funding

The country's top court has ruled that damages based agreements by litigation funders in competition cases are unenforceable.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A Litigation Funder Just Stepped Into the Fray, Filing a Slew of Lawsuits

"Emboldened by the Tribunal's Award, Burford has demanded that Sysco withdraw the stay motions it has filed in the underlying antitrust litigations and initiate an entirely new lawsuit against a number of Sysco's key suppliers," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said.
5 minute read

International Edition

SRA's 'Bureaucratic Ineptitude' Stifles Industry Growth, Burford CEO Says

Christopher Bogart says it is a 'tragedy' that the UK legal regulator has caused the country to miss the opportunities of market liberalization reforms.
4 minute read

International Edition

We Now Have an Industry Standard for Legal Finance Reporting and Transparency

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.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Four Ways the Texas Two-Step Changes How Plaintiffs Litigate Mass Torts

The Texas Two-Step is a bankruptcy process in which a solvent corporation spins off certain liabilities into a new and undercapitalized subsidiary and then has the subsidiary declare bankruptcy.
10 minute read

International Edition

How a Fierce Arbitration Case Reignited Calls to Regulate Litigation Funding

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.
7 minute read

International Edition

Law Firms in the EU Gear Up to Handle Increase in Class Actions

Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain have emerged as key jurisdictions, while firms such as Linklaters, Dentons and Freshfields feel they are well placed to win work.
8 minute read

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