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Therium Adds Four Investment Managers To Its Transatlantic Investment Team In London And New York
Therium Capital Management, the world’s leading global provider of legal finance, today announced that it has added four investment managers to its transatlantic investment team, Chris Wilkins and Charlie Temperley in London and Corey Banks and Joshua Card in New York.
Key Takeaways from LFJs Special Event: How Investors Approach Litigation Finance
On Thursday, July 14th, Litigation Finance Journal hosted a digital event, “How Investors Approach Litigation Finance.” The event featured a unique cross-section of investor types, including David Gallagher, Co-Head of Litigation Investing at The D.E. Shaw Group, CJ Wei, Vice President of Private Credit at Northleaf Capital, Benjamin Blum, Managing Director at Flexpoint Ford, LLC, David Demeter, Director of Investment at Davidson College, and Kendra Corbett, Partner at Cloverlay. The event was moderated by Ed Truant, Founder of Slingshot Capital.
Deminor’s Research Reports ESG Bump
Legal Futures profiles Deminor’s ESG insights in a new report. Deminor says that ESG legal investment has a high likelihood of becoming one of the United Kingdom’s most investable lines of business for litigation financiers.
The Role of Superannuation Funds in Litigation Finance
The role of superannuation funds in litigation finance (specifically in funding class action claims) has been highlighted by industry insiders in Australia, who point to it as a benefit to the funds themselves and also an encouragement of good corporate governance. The recent example of HESTA, a super fund based in Sydney, taking part in a class action lawsuit against multiple financial service companies, has demonstrated both the appetite and the potential benefits of such engagements.
What Lloyd v. Google Means for UK Class Actions and Litigation Funders
The Lloyd v. Google claim has given rise to some thought-provoking questions:
- Has Google breached its duties as a data controller? If so, have class members of the ensuing collective action suffered quantifiable damages?
- How exactly should “same interest” be determined in a case regarding the misuse of data?
- Do individual members of a class have to demonstrate material harm in order to receive recompense?
In the following article, we will explore the answers to these and other questions that have arisen from Case UKSC 2019/0213, otherwise known as Lloyd v. Google.
