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Bespoke Capital Consulting Announces First Investment
Bespoke Capital Consulting has announced the deployment of its first investment. Bespoke provides equity investments to contingent fee law firms looking to grow their business, partnering investment funds with ongoing consultative guidance from its highly qualified and experienced management team.
Key Takeaways from LFJs Special Digital Event: Mass Torts and Litigation Funding
On Thursday March 23rd, Litigation Finance Journal hosted a special digital event: Mass Torts and Litigation Funding. Panelists included Michael Rozen (MR), Founder and Managing Partner at TRGP Investment Partners, James Romeo (JR), Managing Partner at Greenpoint Capital, Brian Roth (BR), Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Rocade Capital, and Michael Guzman (MG), Partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel and Frederick. The discussion was moderated by Ed Truant (ET), Founder of Slingshot Capital.
Unsubstantiated Arguments against Third Party Litigation Funding by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The following piece was contributed by Boris Ziser and John Schneider of law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel.
As famed British-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens astutely observed, “exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.”[1] Alas, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform (“ILR”) overlooks Hitchens’ directive in its November 2022 paper “A New Threat: The National Security Risk of Third Party Litigation Funding” (“ILR Paper”). The ILR Paper, in short, makes an exceptional set of claims about the bad faith of American lawyers, the implied ineptness of our judges and the way our legal system functions, without providing the requisite evidence to back it up.
Highlights from Brown Rudnick’s 2nd Annual European Litigation Funding Conference
Last week, Brown Rudnick hosted its second European Litigation Funding Conference, which brought together a crowd of international thought-leaders from across the industry, and provided attendees with an agenda filled with insightful discussions on a wide array of issues. The conference proved to be a beneficial experience for all, with Augusta Ventures co-founder Robert Hanna describing it as ‘the pre-eminent litigation funding conference in Europe, if not the world’.
LCM Releases Interim Results for the Half Year
Litigation Capital Management has released its Interim results for the half year ended 31 December 2022.
International Legal Finance Association Adds Contingency Capital as 20th Member
The International Legal Finance Association (ILFA), the only global association of commercial legal finance companies, today announced that Contingency Capital has joined the organization as its 20th member.
Casting a Worldwide Net: How Litigation Funders Can Leverage Europe’s New Unified Patent Court
The following article was contributed by Lionel Martin (Partner, August Debouzy), Pierre-Olivier Ally (Counsel, August Debouzy), Ben Quarmby (Partner, MoloLamken LLP) and Jonathan E. Barbee (Counsel, MoloLamken LLP).
Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) is on the cusp of launch, confirmed for this June 1, 2023. It has been eagerly anticipated by the patent litigation community across the member states—starting with 17 European countries, but expected to extend rapidly to all of Europe minus Poland, Spain, Croatia, and, most notably, the UK.
The UPC has been long in the making: over ten years have passed since the agreement was first signed. What is to be expected of this new court, and what opportunities does it present for litigation funders?
