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

The trucking industry is intensifying its scrutiny of third-party litigation funding, arguing that undisclosed outside capital is distorting the economics of truck-crash lawsuits and driving up the cost of doing…

Third-party litigation funding has grown into a multibillion-dollar force across major legal markets, yet the rules governing it remain strikingly inconsistent from one jurisdiction to the next, according to a…

A proposed UK collective action against five musical-instrument manufacturers has collapsed after its litigation funding fell through, leaving the proposed class representative facing roughly £1.5 million in costs. As reported…

More than 40 companies have signed up under Georgia’s new litigation-funding registry, an early measure of how the state’s sweeping 2025 reform is reshaping an industry that long operated with…

New Hampshire has retreated from an ambitious effort to regulate the litigation finance industry, ultimately enacting a narrowed law that targets foreign funders while abandoning the broad registration and oversight…

The Financial Conduct Authority has turned on a consumer campaign group in the escalating fight over Britain’s £9.1 billion motor-finance redress scheme, questioning how the organization is funded and its…

Australia’s Treasury has brushed aside warnings from former corporate regulator chair Joe Longo that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is running short of the money it needs to fund…

The decision by cab aggregator Meru to abandon its long-running competition appeal against Ola and Uber has become an unlikely rallying point for advocates of third-party litigation funding in India,…

The administrators winding down collapsed UK firm SSB Law have launched a £19.5 million claim against the after-the-event insurers tied to the firm’s cavity wall insulation cases, in a dispute…

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has opened a consultation on sweeping new requirements for law firms that rely on third-party litigation funding to pursue consumer claims, citing risks to firm stability…

Uber has quietly rewritten its rider and driver agreements to require anyone who sues the company to disclose whether their case is backed by third-party litigation funding — a novel…

A new market analysis argues that the most consequential shift in legal funding has little to do with litigation itself and everything to do with capital efficiency. Corporations that once…

High Rise Financial, a national consumer legal funding company, has extended its pre-settlement funding operations into Nevada, offering non-recourse advances to plaintiffs across Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, North Las Vegas,…

LITFINCON, the global litigation finance conference series produced by Siltstone Capital, is bringing its platform to Europe for the first time, signaling how central the region has become to the…

Esquire Financial Holdings continues to build its bank around the legal industry, with commercial litigation-related lending now the clear centerpiece of its loan book rather than a sideline. The firm’s…

Ohio is moving to join the growing roster of states regulating third-party litigation funding, advancing a bill that pairs registration and disclosure requirements with an outright prohibition on foreign funders….

A new commentary argues that pending federal legislation to regulate third-party litigation funding could do more constitutional harm than substantive reform, raising First Amendment and privacy concerns for funded parties…

A new study from Burford Capital and The Lawyer finds that cost and risk are keeping meritorious claims off the docket. In the London Disputes Report 2026, 67% of senior…

North Carolina has become the first US state to prohibit third-party litigation funding outright, with its Prohibit Litigation Investments Act taking effect on June 22, 2026. The law makes it…

Burford Capital’s shares have fallen nearly 50% after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a $16 billion judgment against Argentina in the long-running YPF case —…

Omni Bridgeway has secured top-tier recognition in the Chambers and Partners Litigation Support Guide 2026, earning Band 1 rankings in both Litigation Funding and Global Asset Tracing and Recovery. The…

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s roughly £9.1 billion motor finance redress scheme has been partly suspended after the Upper Tribunal agreed to pause key elements pending the outcome of four…

AdvoCap Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of case-cost financier Advocate Capital, has launched a Case Expense Insurance Program aimed at plaintiff and contingent-fee law firms across the United States. The product…

Consumer legal funder ProLegal has expanded its pre-settlement funding operations into Kansas, timing its entry to the July 1 effective date of the state’s new Transparency in Consumer Legal Funding…

Fresh analysis of court data is sharpening the debate over whether mandatory disclosure of third-party litigation funding drives cases out of jurisdictions that require it. The evidence increasingly suggests it…

Loopa Finance has strengthened its standing in the global litigation funding market with its latest recognition from Chambers and Partners, which named the firm Band 1 in Latin America in…

Litigation funder Nera Capital has welcomed a Court of Appeal judgment in the Angel v Black Horse Limited motor finance litigation, calling it a significant step forward for consumer redress…

Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of building a legal case, and in doing so it is reshaping the economics of litigation finance by making smaller claims viable to pursue….

The New Jersey General Assembly has passed legislation requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements, advancing the state toward becoming the latest to impose transparency obligations on the funding…

Nine of Britain’s biggest housebuilders are facing a collective action at the Competition Appeal Tribunal alleging they unlawfully shared competitively sensitive information that inflated the price of new-build homes. The…