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Two competition law academics have published a point-by-point examination of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s position on collective redress and litigation funding, concluding that several of the central…

Management services organisations have become a leading route for outside investors to participate in the economics of US law firms without breaching the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership, and the structure…

A long-running opt-out collective action against Govia Thameslink Railway has come to an end after the claim failed to secure a replacement class representative backed by adequate funding and insurance,…

A gap of nearly £18.3 million has opened between the after-the-event insurance held by the Duke of Sussex and his six fellow claimants and the costs now being claimed against…

Omni Bridgeway has closed its 2026 financial year with record figures on both sides of the ledger, reporting the largest annual commitment total in the group’s history alongside a sharp…

The legal and economic foundations of opt-out competition claims in the United Kingdom are being tested with increasing rigour, as the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the appellate courts sharpen their…

Legal Bay LLC has extended its commercial litigation funding platform to cover cryptocurrency fraud claims, targeting a category of disputes in which claimants frequently hold substantial value that is illiquid…

The European Commission’s first enforcement action under the Digital Markets Act has opened the door to a fresh round of private damages litigation against Google, with third-party funders already positioned…

A new opinion piece out of Connecticut casts third-party litigation funding as an under-regulated market whose costs ultimately fall on the public, adding to the chorus of consumer- and insurance-side…

The New Jersey Supreme Court has established a framework for trial judges weighing the ethical implications of third-party funding in criminal matters, extending scrutiny of outside financing into a context…

Counsel Financial has expanded its technology leadership with the appointment of David Le as Director of Product and Digital Transformation, a newly created role aimed at modernizing the platforms that…

An arbitration award arising from the long-running Mbalam iron-ore dispute could make Burford Capital one of the largest financial beneficiaries of the case, underscoring the scale of returns that commercial…

Ireland’s High Court has confirmed that it holds a general power to order the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements, in a ruling that carries particular weight in a jurisdiction…

Institutional investors that have long fueled litigation finance through dedicated funds are increasingly going direct, putting capital straight into law-firm and case portfolios rather than routing it through intermediary funders….

The administration of Woodville Consultants, the litigation funder that helped bankroll the wave of UK motor-finance claims, is proving more consequential than its modest headcount suggested, with administrators now examining…

Uber’s revised terms of service — which require users who sue the company to disclose their litigation funding agreements and to waive attorney-client privilege and work-product protection over communications with…

Nera Capital has secured a new £75 million funding commitment, capital the litigation funder will deploy across three strategic initiatives spanning the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States….

Nearly three years after the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling upended the enforceability of litigation funding agreements, the UK market is still waiting for the legislative fix that was meant to…

The Commercial Court has ruled that communications created to help a litigation funder decide whether to back a claim do not ordinarily attract litigation privilege, ordering disclosure of exchanges between…

The UK government has proposed a wide-ranging overhaul of the opt-out collective actions regime, including lifting the ban on damages-based agreements as a way to fund claims before the Competition…

Woodville Consultants, a Welsh litigation funder that bankrolled UK law firms pursuing motor-finance mis-selling claims, has been placed into administration, leaving thousands of retail investors exposed to a loan book…

A New Jersey appeals court has upheld the enforceability of a consumer legal funding agreement, ruling that state insurance and medical-lien statutes do not limit a privately negotiated contract between…

A UK Court of Appeal decision has cleared roughly 5,800 motorists to pursue their car-finance mis-selling claims together as a single mass action, a procedural milestone expected to shape consumer…

A new opinion piece argues that the opacity surrounding third-party litigation funding has become a national-security vulnerability, urging Congress to force disclosure of who is bankrolling lawsuits against American energy,…

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has escalated its intervention in England and Wales’ high-volume consumer claims sector, disclosing that it has shut down seven firms and opened dozens of active investigations…

The trucking industry is intensifying its scrutiny of third-party litigation funding, arguing that undisclosed outside capital is distorting the economics of truck-crash lawsuits and driving up the cost of doing…

Third-party litigation funding has grown into a multibillion-dollar force across major legal markets, yet the rules governing it remain strikingly inconsistent from one jurisdiction to the next, according to a…

A proposed UK collective action against five musical-instrument manufacturers has collapsed after its litigation funding fell through, leaving the proposed class representative facing roughly £1.5 million in costs. As reported…

More than 40 companies have signed up under Georgia’s new litigation-funding registry, an early measure of how the state’s sweeping 2025 reform is reshaping an industry that long operated with…

New Hampshire has retreated from an ambitious effort to regulate the litigation finance industry, ultimately enacting a narrowed law that targets foreign funders while abandoning the broad registration and oversight…