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The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has certified a £1.7 billion opt-out collective action against Microsoft, even after acknowledging “a degree of uncertainty” surrounding the case’s litigation funder. The claim, brought…

Fortress Investment Group has expanded its push into US legal services with a new equity investment in an Arizona personal injury law firm, structured through a financing arrangement designed to…

Anup Misra has launched Misra IP Litigation, a new patent litigation strategy and advisory firm centered on litigation funding, underwriting, and intellectual property monetization. The firm will serve as lead…

GLS Capital has been ranked by The Legal 500’s Disputes Hub as one of the leading US commercial litigation funders, the firm announced. The recognition places GLS in the upper…

Counsel Financial has originated a financing transaction worth more than $30 million to support an internal succession plan at a plaintiff-side law firm. The capital is structured to enable the…

A new Solicitor News analysis frames 2026 as the year UK litigation funding completes its transition from a flexible commercial tool to a regulated feature of the justice system, with…

Plaintiffs’ class action attorney Adam J. Levitt of DiCello Levitt has used his monthly *National Law Journal* column to challenge what he calls the central premise of the modern tort…

Stichting Bescherming Consumentenbelang, a Dutch consumer protection foundation, has filed a class claim against Netflix in the Amsterdam District Court alleging that the streaming service raised subscription prices by as…

A newly published empirical study in the *Corporate and Business Law Journal* examines the real effects of litigation finance on case outcomes using a hand-collected dataset of disclosed funded cases…

Omni Bridgeway has reported its Q3 FY26 portfolio update, headlined by an exclusive term sheet pipeline of more than A$600 million — roughly twice the firm’s average quarterly pipeline —…

With Florida’s redistricting special session wrapping up and another special session expected, tort-reform and insurance-industry advocates are pressing state lawmakers to use the next window to take up unfinished business…

Colorado lawmakers have introduced HB 1421, a bill that would sharply restrict the ability of state law firms to enter financial or contractual arrangements with alternative business structures (ABS) and…

A new Triple-I research piece outlines the rapidly expanding state-level reform agenda targeting third-party litigation funding, with disclosure mandates, foreign-funder bans, and registration regimes advancing in legislatures across the country…

The bankruptcy court overseeing Diamond Comic Distributors has approved trustee Morgan W. Fisher’s motion to retain litigation counsel and draw on debtor-in-possession financing from JPMorgan Chase to pursue litigation claims…

Legalist has closed a $415 million litigation finance fund — its fourth — bringing the San Francisco-based, tech-driven funder’s total assets under management to roughly $2 billion and nearly doubling…

Legal-Bay Pre-Settlement Funding has issued a sector update flagging the Archdiocese of New York as approaching a “critical crossroads” in its handling of nearly 2,000 sex abuse lawsuits, with plaintiffs’…

ACSO, the UK trade body representing consumer-facing claimant law firms, has launched the Consumer Legal Association (CLA), positioning it as the unified voice of a £5.5 billion-plus personal injury and…

The U.S. Treasury has amended an OFAC sanctions license to permit the Venezuelan government to finance the legal representation of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, reversing an earlier…

Law firms and claims management companies are positioning to extract up to 40% of consumer payouts under the FCA’s £9.1 billion car finance redress scheme, drawing comparisons to the PPI…

Major UK car finance lenders, including Santander, Barclays, and Lloyds Banking Group’s Black Horse division, have signalled they will not legally challenge the FCA’s £9.1 billion motor finance redress scheme,…

PM Law Ltd, a Sheffield-based personal injury and conveyancing firm with 25 offices and more than 600 employees, has collapsed in one of the most significant UK law firm failures…

Korea has selected DB Insurance as the lead insurer for its government-backed SME Technology Dispute Litigation Insurance program, expanding a state-subsidized legal expenses insurance scheme designed to help small and…

Counsel Financial has supported a $35 million commercial bank credit facility for a national plaintiffs’ litigation firm, replacing an existing financing arrangement with a larger facility and materially reducing the…

Several UK car finance providers urged the Court of Appeal on Wednesday to overturn a ruling that allows more than 5,000 customers to bring claims against them collectively, seeking to…

Spanish litigation boutique Eskariam has secured a €50 million senior secured credit facility from U.S.-based Victory Park Capital, providing fresh capital to finance the firm’s pipeline of complex damages and…

Federal trial judges are openly grappling with how third-party litigation funding is reshaping the litigation they oversee, even as the formal rules governing disclosure remain unsettled. As reported by Law.com,…

A Michigan House committee has voted to advance legislation requiring disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements in civil cases, joining the wave of state-level transparency measures working their way through…

A litigation funding firm has sued its insurer, alleging the carrier is wrongfully refusing to pay a guaranteed $200 million under a policy covering losses on an unpaid loan. As…

Canadian personal injury firms are increasingly turning to legal finance products to manage expert costs and preserve working capital, with Expert Access positioning itself as a specialized option for contingency-fee…

The Law Commission of England and Wales has launched a major project to examine whether the UK should adopt a consumer class actions regime, opening the door to a potential…