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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…

Litigation Capital Management has won another short extension of the covenant waiver on its debt facility, buying the funder additional time to resolve its capital structure while it pursues a…

New Zealand family law practices are increasingly treating third-party funding as a core part of their business model rather than a last resort, as firms look to convert uncertain and…

The English High Court has ruled that communications generated to secure third-party funding are not shielded by litigation privilege, a decision that sharpens the disclosure risks facing funded claimants and…

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled that major corporate class members in the £13.6 billion Ad Tech Collective Action against Google can be compelled to participate actively in the…

Manolete Partners, the AIM-listed specialist in insolvency litigation finance, has reported a record year across several operational metrics for the twelve months ended March 31, 2026, even as realised revenue…

Australian companies face a class action landscape increasingly shaped by events beyond their borders, according to new analysis warning that overseas litigation, foreign regulatory activity, and global litigation funding flows…

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has certified a £3 billion collective claim against Apple, allowing one of the country’s largest consumer actions to proceed toward trial. The case, brought by…

Pogust Goodhead has lined up fresh capital and elite co-counsel for the next phase of its landmark claim against mining giant BHP over the 2015 Mariana dam collapse in Brazil…

Omni Bridgeway, one of the world’s largest legal finance providers, has released new content underscoring the specialized expertise required to fund international arbitration — disputes that frequently span multiple jurisdictions,…

A new comment letter to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules contends that third-party litigation funding (TPLF) agreements do not automatically qualify for protection under the attorney-client privilege or the…

A coalition of 21 organizations led by the American Energy Alliance (AEA) has called on congressional leaders to close a tax provision that allows third-party litigation financiers to treat their…

Irwell Insurance Company has agreed a five-year capacity partnership with managing general agent Addept Insurance Services, significantly expanding the legal expenses insurance (LEI) capacity available to the UK specialist. The…

The Ohio Senate has passed House Bill 105, advancing what supporters describe as one of the most comprehensive third-party litigation funding measures in the country and sending it to Governor…

A senior English costs judge has struck out a law firm’s entire £30,000 success fee after finding that the firm failed to make reasonable inquiries into its client’s existing legal…

A cautionary first-person account from a retail investor is circulating as a warning about the risks lurking in consumer-facing litigation finance products — not in the underlying legal strategy, but…

The United Kingdom’s long-promised overhaul of litigation funding regulation has stalled again, and rival jurisdictions are moving to capture the investment that uncertainty is pushing offshore. Nearly three years after…

A New York appellate ruling, paired with the state’s newly enacted consumer litigation funding law, is giving defendants fresh tools to scrutinize the financing behind personal-injury claims they suspect are…

Burford Capital has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit decision that dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, the litigation funder’s bid to arbitrate a dispute tied to German…

A new entrant has joined the litigation finance conference circuit. The inaugural Chicago Litigation Finance Summit convened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in early May, organized by Charles Zuo,…

In a striking outcome for funded collective actions, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has signed off on the discontinuation of a £480 million claim against Qualcomm that delivers no compensation…

As private equity firms extend their reach into the legal industry, a new commentary argues that the tax code has failed to keep pace with how litigation funders actually earn…

The credibility of the UK’s opt-out collective action regime increasingly depends on a stubborn problem: persuading class members to actually claim the damages won on their behalf. As reported by…

The High Court has rejected litigation funder Innsworth’s judicial review challenge to the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s distribution of the £200M Merricks v Mastercard settlement, ending the first substantive test of…

While most state legislatures have pursued disclosure and registration regimes for litigation finance, North Carolina is advancing something far more drastic: an outright ban. As reported by Bloomberg Law, North…

A proposed UK collective action against major musical instrument manufacturers is collapsing for want of litigation funding — a concrete illustration of the financing squeeze facing claims in the Competition…

More than £3.7M left unclaimed from a funded rail passenger class action is being redeployed to support free legal advice services across the UK, offering a window into what happens…

A new entrant has arrived in the European litigation funding market, with Felix von Zwehl announcing that MOMENTUM Legal Finance, a German funder he has spent recent months building, is…

Burford Capital intends to expand its minority equity investments in elite law firms across the United Kingdom and United States, betting that growing appetite for law-firm ownership will open a…