
Brown Rudnick Launches Litigation Funding Working Group
International law firm Brown Rudnick announced today the launch of the Litigation Funding Working Group (LFWG), which brings together leading litigation funders, insurers, institutional claimants, legal advisors and other participants across the litigation funding market in the UK and Europe to develop model documentation to help support the continued growth and development of the litigation funding market. Led by Elena S. Rey, a partner at Brown Rudnick’s Special Situations team, this initiative comes at a time of rising demand for litigation funding products in an evolving regulatory environment. The model documentation will be freely available and will provide the following benefits across the litigation funding market:
- Promote efficient markets: Improve speed of execution and streamline the negotiation process.
- Develop secondary market: Provide a platform for the development of secondary market transactions by way of novation, participation, assignment or other risk transfer arrangement.
- Market integrity: Improve protections for market participants and provide a bench mark for the judiciary by incorporating best market practice, regulatory standards (including data protection) and judicial practice and adopting a balanced approach between stakeholders.
- Simplicity and Flexibility: Follow the model of other major financial markets by standardising structure and key clauses in a model document while leaving market participants free to incorporate their own commercial and other terms.
- Reduce Risk: Promote the adoption of high standards across the industry and reduce exposure to reputational risk and disputes from poorly constructed contracts.