Augusta Ventures Hires Leor Franks as Chief Marketing Officer
Augusta Ventures, which has been on a hiring binge lately, has brought on FTI Consulting’s Managing Director Leor Franks as its new Chief Marketing Officer.
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First Annual DealFlow Event in NYC Brings Together Industry Participants and Potential Regulators
Last Thursday, DealFlow Events held their first annual Litigation Funding Forum in New York City. Industry participants gathered at the TKP Conference Center in midtown Manhattan to network and discuss the most pressing issues facing the industry today.
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Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law Launches Dispute Financing Library
The Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law has launched a comprehensive digital library of documents relating the third-party litigation funding industry.
Woodsford Litigation Funding opens office in Tel Aviv
LONDON and TEL AVIV – Monday 25th March 2019, Woodsford Litigation Funding, the global provider of litigation financing solutions for businesses, individuals and law firms, has announced the opening of an office on Rothschild Boulevard in central Tel-Aviv.
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Litigation Capital Management (AIM:LIT) announces global cooperation agreement with leading law firm
Litigation Capital Management Limited (AIM:LIT) (LCM), a leading international provider of litigation financing solutions, announces that it has entered into a global cooperation agreement with a leading international law firm.
Therium Exceeds $1 Billion Milestone In Latest Fundraise From Global Institutional Investors
Jersey, Channel Islands, 25 March, 2019. Therium Group Holdings Limited, a leading global provider of litigation, arbitration and specialty legal finance, today announced that it has exceeded an important $1billion milestone of funds raised, following a latest fund raise of £325 million from three global institutional investors, including a sovereign wealth fund, to finance litigation and arbitration globally. It is Therium’s largest fund and follows the £200 million raised in February 2018.
Litigation funding to double in five years as asset class becomes mainstream: expert
Litigation funding is undeniably becoming a mainstream asset class with the market set to double in the next five years. This is the prediction from Dilip N Massand of Legal Ventures, a UAE based fund by Phoenix Advisors that specializes in emerging markets. It is backed by Dalma Capital, a leading alternative investment manager.
Read More SPONSORED POST: Litigation Finance Opportunity for ‘David vs. Goliath’ Case
Loewinsohn Flegle Deary Simon is prosecuting a claim valued at $31m. We are raising $2.3m for return within 12 months, possible additional upside. $450k to close, balance on run rate 30 days net to trial. The claimant is a single individual plaintiff who is a very credible former investment banker. Claimant is very knowledgeable and is committed to conclusion of the claim. One defendant is a large international financial institution and the second defendant is a highly liquid mortgage loan originator. Case documents are structured finance and real estate. Defendant’s counsel is a national general practice firm, lead defense counsel is 4-year partner. This is a complex financial claim, fact intensive, document case. Documents we hold support an opinion letter from a legal 500 firm at 80% chance of recovery. Damages are supported by preliminary economic expert and other case documents.
Read More Litigation Capital Management (AIM:LIT) announces settlement in principle of litigation project
Litigation Capital Management Limited (AIM:LIT), a leading international provider of litigation financing solutions, announces that a settlement in principle has been reached in respect of one of its litigation projects.
Capital Pro-Égaux Inc. (NEX: CPE.H) Announces Litigation Funding Agreement
MORIN-HEIGHTS, QC, March 12, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ – Capital Pro-Égaux Inc. (the “Company”) (NEX: CPE.H) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Technique d’usinage Sinlab Inc. (“Sinlab”), has entered into a Litigation Funding Agreement for the funding of expenses related to the professional negligence action for damages commenced in 2013 in Florida against Sinlab’s counsel who represented Sinlab in litigation in Virginia against certain entities who violated Sinlab’s pioneering digital dentistry patent portfolio (the “Litigation”).
Read More Therium launches “Therium Access” to provide not-for-profit litigation funding to improve access to justice in the UK
Therium Group Holdings Limited, one of the world’s leading providers of litigation, arbitration and specialty legal finance, today announced the launch of Therium Access, which will provide not-for-profit litigation funding in order to facilitate access to justice.
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IMF Bentham stands behind claimants in A$75 million court action against AET (a subsidiary of IOOF)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: 11 MARCH 2019: Backed by Australia’s leading litigation funder, IMF Bentham Limited (ASX:IMF), thousands of Australian retirees, who lost everything after investing in a forestry scheme in the 1980s, will finally get their day in court against IOOF. The Supreme Court of NSW has scheduled the hearing over eight days from 1 July.
Read More LCM TO COMMIT CAPITAL OF A$100 MILLION IN AUSTRALASIA DURING 2019
SYDNEY, 11 March 2019: Litigation Capital Management (“LCM” or “the Company”), a leading international provider of litigation financing solutions, announces its intention to commit A$100 million of capital into Australasian litigation finance projects during 2019.
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Financial Poise™ Announces “Commercial Litigation Funding,” a New Webinar Series Premiering March 13th at 3:00 PM CST through West LegalEdcenter™
The first episode in this series is titled “An Introduction to a New Yet Old Funding Alternative ” and is co-produced by West LegalEdCenter™. It will feature Jeremy Waitzman (Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP); David Spiegel (GLS Capital, LLC); Ken Epstein (Bentham IMF); and Evan Fried (Greybridge Capital LLC).
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Litigation Support Leaders LexShares and GLG Law to Partner, Will Cross-Promote Services to Clients
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LexShares, a leader in commercial litigation finance, and GLG Law, a leader in expert witness services, today announced an exclusive new partnership under which they will offer their litigation support products to one another’s clients. Together, LexShares and GLG Law have worked with more than three quarters of the AmLaw 100 and are trusted partners of hundreds of law firms globally.
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Canadian innovator JL Energy Transportation Inc. obtains funding from leading litigation funder Bentham IMF Capital Limited for infringement action against major Canada/US pipeline and gas processing companies
CALGARY, March 6, 2019 /CNW/ – JL Energy Transportation Inc. (“JETI”, more: www.jlenergy.com) announces that it has obtained third-party funding from Bentham IMF Capital Limited (“Bentham”), the Canadian arm of leading global litigation funder IMF Bentham (ASX:IMF), for license and patent infringement claims against an alliance of major Canadian and US pipeline and gas processing companies.
Litigation Capital Management (AIM:LIT): Appointment of Jonathan Moulds as Chairman
Litigation Capital Management Limited (AIM:LIT) (LCM), a leading international provider of litigation financing solutions, today announces that it has appointed Jonathan Moulds as Non-Executive Chairman effective 29 March 2019.
Native American Venture Fund (NAVF) to Speak at the 4th Litigation Funding Conference in Florida on March 8, 2019
Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that Native American Venture Fund (NAVF) will speak at the Litigation Funding Conference ( https://litigationfundingconference.com ) on March 8, 2019, in Delray Beach, FL.
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Gowling WLG Partner James Foster to Join Augusta Ventures
Augusta, the largest litigation and dispute funding institution in the UK – with £150m of capital and a team of 70 in London – today announces the appointment of James Foster as Head of Commercial and Bilateral Investment Treaties Arbitration. He will be based in Augusta’s London office from April 2019.
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Vannin Capital Expands With Three Additions in New York and Washington
Vannin Capital, the global expert in legal finance, announces today its continued U.S. expansion with two new Managing Directors and an Associate Director in New York and Washington, D.C.
