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

The Michigan House of Representatives has approved House Bill 5281, a Republican-sponsored measure that would impose registration, disclosure, and contracting restrictions on third-party litigation funders operating in the state, advancing…

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has set the terms of reference for a market study into claims management services, with third-party litigation funding squarely within scope. The review is the…

Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is again pressing for a federal tax on third-party litigation funding, this time as a revenue offset within the Senate’s emerging reconciliation package built around immigration…

Anthropic has released Claude for Legal, an open, modular suite of AI plugins, skills, and scheduled agents built for legal practice, including a dedicated litigation module with direct relevance to…

Litigation funding has moved from a niche tool to an established component of dispute resolution across Europe, with Spain emerging as one of the continent’s most active markets, according to…

The global litigation finance conference series LITFINCON will hold its first Asia-focused event on June 3–4, 2026 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, a signal of the sector’s accelerating expansion…

Nkosana Makate, the inventor of Vodacom’s “Please Call Me” service, has asked the Pretoria High Court to set aside a 2011 funding agreement that entitles UK-based investor Errol Elsdon to…

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) is applying markedly closer scrutiny to collective proceedings at the certification stage, a shift that practitioners describe as significant and that carries direct consequences…

The Law Commission has launched a project to consider the potential introduction of a dedicated consumer class actions regime, a development with meaningful implications for where funded collective claims may…

EY UK has paid £105.5 million to the administrators of collapsed healthcare group NMC Health to settle long-running claims that the firm was negligent in its audits between 2012 and…

The UK government’s annual legislative agenda set out in the King’s Speech this week made no mention of the long-promised litigation funding bill, leaving the industry’s preferred reversal of the…

The U.S. International Trade Commission has proposed a rule that would require parties in Section 337 intellectual property investigations to disclose their litigation funding arrangements, including the identities of entities…

Burford Capital shareholders approved all 16 resolutions at the company’s 2026 annual general meeting, ratifying the board’s director slate, a final dividend, and a full suite of capital and share-issuance…

State legislatures continued their march toward tighter regulation of third-party litigation funding this week, with separate bills advancing in Michigan and Colorado that take very different routes to constrain outside…

Burford Capital is shifting its public narrative from a single landmark case toward the breadth of its underlying portfolio after absorbing a $2.4 billion non-cash write-down tied to the YPF…

A new op-ed by Ike Brannon of the Jack Kemp Foundation argues that the rapid rise of “nuclear” verdicts, fueled in part by third-party litigation funding, is now translating directly…

UK litigation finance has taken a step into tokenized capital markets with the launch of the Kairos Digital Loan Notes High-Yield Programme — the first publicly rated senior secured digital…

Class counsel in the $7.25 billion Roundup nationwide class settlement have asked a Missouri judge to approve $675 million in legal fees — about 9.3% of the settlement fund, which…

The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is pressing its tort-reform message, arguing in a new release that “legal system abuse” — including third-party litigation funding — is a major and…

Litigation funding is taking root in India as domestic and global investors begin financing commercial disputes in exchange for a share of awards or settlements. The shift positions India as…

Burford Capital reported first-quarter 2026 results highlighting more than $700 million of liquidity and a 25% increase in new commitments, even as the YPF reversal drove a large non-cash charge…

Burford Capital chief executive Christopher Bogart is making the case for opening law firm equity to outside capital, framing the legal profession’s current partnership structure as the last major holdout…

A protracted downturn in litigation finance is drawing hedge funds and special situations investors to acquire legal-claim portfolios at deeply discounted valuations, in some cases as low as 10 cents…

Music Licensing, Inc. (OTCID: SONG), operating as Pro Music Rights, has announced the formation of a Luxembourg-domiciled special purpose vehicle to securitize and repackage its licensing portfolio and copyright infringement…

UK judges are paying closer attention to the commercial benefits flowing to lawyers and funders in class action proceedings, signaling a tougher review of who actually gains from collective litigation….

Third-party funding is increasingly shaping the strategic landscape of post-M&A arbitration, according to discussions at the OPEN de Arbitraje 2026 conference held in Madrid. Practitioners and arbitrators examined how external…

Litigation funding played a decisive role in a landmark New Zealand High Court ruling that has left ANZ Bank New Zealand facing potential liability of up to NZ$125 million. The…

The Court of Justice of the European Union is set to examine whether certain forms of litigation financing risk undermining the effectiveness of the bloc’s antitrust laws, in a referral…

A new opinion piece in The Times is urging UK ministers not to weaken the country’s collective actions regime, arguing that funded class litigation has become one of the few…

A second opinion piece in The Times has framed the UK’s opt-out class action regime as an indispensable tool for access to justice, arguing that decades of cuts to civil…