News and analysis dedicated to the commercial litigation funding sector including regulatory issues, case developments, funding activities, and more.

Family offices are increasingly treating litigation finance as a diversification tool, drawn by returns that are largely uncorrelated with public markets at a time of rising inflation and interest rates….

Justice Michael Lee has appointed two barristers as contradictors to scrutinise the commission a litigation funder is seeking from a record A$750 million settlement of two Toyota class actions —…

A funded class action filed in Australia’s Federal Court alleges that Meta Platforms exposed children to harmful content on Facebook and Instagram and kept them engaged through addictive design features….

The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met on October 21 and again stopped short of committing to a nationwide rule requiring disclosure of third-party litigation funding, leaving the question unresolved…

The law firm holding the largest book of UK motor finance claims has called for a temporary blanket ban on all advertising for such claims, arguing that duplicate representation must…

Class actions before the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal counted more than 750 million members by the end of last year, an increase of 80 million over the prior twelve months,…

The regulatory map for third-party litigation funding has shifted decisively toward disclosure, with more than 20 states now requiring some form of transparency around outside capital in litigation. With the…

Chariot Claims has closed a $10 million Series A round to expand a platform that sources and pre-qualifies consumer claims for mass arbitration, bringing total funding to $15.7 million. As…

The long-running rugby concussion group litigation has been pulled back from collapse after an eleventh-hour £1.5m payment satisfied a court-ordered costs liability owed to World Rugby and the Rugby Football…

Mixed martial arts fighters suing the UFC over alleged wage suppression are pushing back against the organisation’s effort to obtain information about the litigation funding behind their case, characterising the…

The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld a Chancery Court ruling rejecting claims that hedge fund manager Casey Gard and affiliated entities improperly shifted a litigation finance business away from a…

Two discrimination class actions brought on behalf of First Nations families in Queensland have been formally discontinued after the proceedings lost their litigation funding, bringing a three-year case to an…

ASX-listed Shine Justice has marked its 50th year with a return to profitability and an international mass torts strategy that depends heavily on third-party litigation funding. As reported by TipRanks,…

Listed litigation funders are facing renewed scrutiny as fair-value accounting pushes losses from adverse court and arbitration outcomes into earnings well before any cash changes hands. As reported by Traders…

Apple has asked a federal court in San Diego to overturn or retry the largest patent verdict on record in the United States, a $5,721,961,750 award that carries a substantial…

Josh Wander, co-founder of private investment firm 777 Partners, has signaled in a court filing that he intends to change his plea in the federal fraud case accusing him of…

Ireland has brought its collective redress regime into operation with a new set of court rules and its first substantive judgment, yet the country’s continuing prohibition on third-party litigation funding…

Third-party funding agreements are not automatically void in the Philippines despite the country’s long-standing hostility to champerty, according to a new analysis of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in *RODCO Consultancy…

German claims vehicle Financialright Claims GmbH has asked a Delaware federal judge to revive its lawsuit against a Burford Capital affiliate over an allegedly fraudulently induced arbitration agreement, arguing that…

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has stayed Which?’s collective proceedings against Apple until 16 November 2026 after the consumer group terminated its litigation funding agreement with Litigation Capital Management and began…

Simpson Millar LLP, one of the UK’s largest consumer law firms and a flagship investment for specialist legal-sector capital provider Doorway, has reported an annual loss of £5 million and…

Hedge funds have stepped up acquisitions of legal claims tied to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires after a legislative push to restrict the trades lost momentum, with pricing on individual…

The High Court has ruled that the claimant committee in the Mariana dam litigation had no authority to terminate its retainer with PGMBM, formerly Pogust Goodhead, or to instruct a…

Three very different UK litigation funders have failed or stopped writing new business within six months, prompting a public disagreement among industry figures over whether the sector is facing structural…

The cumulative value of opt-out class actions across Europe’s highest-risk jurisdictions has surpassed €200 billion, and filings have resumed growth after a one-year dip, according to CMS’s European Class Action…

Pinsent Masons has warned that a new opt-out consumer class action regime in England and Wales could end up serving claimant law firms and litigation funders more than the consumers…

A Welsh law firm specialising in motor finance redress claims has been placed into administration while carrying an outstanding charge in favour of Woodville Consultants Limited, the litigation funder that…

An inventor rights advocacy group has told the federal rules committee that a mandatory third-party litigation funding disclosure rule would hand well-capitalised defendants a tactical advantage over independent inventors trying…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has lent his support to a Republican effort to change the tax treatment of third-party litigation funding, telling a congressional committee that he regards the industry…

Pre-settlement funder Legal-Bay has welcomed the proposed $800 million abuse settlement involving the Archdiocese of New York while warning claimants that the plan’s fast-track payment option may undervalue their claims….