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The Second Circuit has upheld a $4.8 million attorneys’ fee award in a sex trafficking case, endorsing a district court’s decision to strike time counsel spent communicating with its litigation…

Litigation funder Legalist has asked a federal court in Manhattan to confirm an arbitration award against a claimant it financed, in a rare public dispute between a funder and the…

Sorren, a private equity-backed accounting and advisory group, has launched an affiliated US law firm under a management services structure — the latest sign of outside capital moving toward legal…

Days after Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2305, California’s leading civil justice reform group has dismissed the new law as effectively unenforceable — while noting that third-party litigation funding…

A new empirical review of third-party funding disclosure disputes in the federal courts concludes that judges are already applying case-specific standards, and that no court has ever imposed the blanket…

A new opinion piece argues that legal system abuse, including the rapid expansion of third-party litigation funding, is an overlooked driver of household costs, and calls for federal transparency measures…

Third-party litigation funding in India remains small but is attracting institutional capital, with domestic and foreign funders building portfolios in a market that still has no central statute, regulator or…

The share of UK law firms willing to consider outside investment has climbed sharply, according to NatWest’s annual legal sector report, with 40% now saying they would actively explore some…

Omni Bridgeway has asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. to reject Albania’s bid to vacate a roughly $15 million default judgment enforcing an arbitral award, setting up a ruling…

Perpetual Limited has increased its holding in litigation funder Omni Bridgeway to 15.403%, according to a substantial holding notice lodged with the ASX, consolidating its position as one of the…

A funded class action filed against Macquarie Investment Management over the collapse of the Shield Master Fund is drawing criticism from within the Australian advice industry, with questions being raised…

The Court of Appeal has ruled that former clients have no mechanism under the Solicitors Act to compel their solicitors to reveal commissions earned on after-the-event insurance, even while criticising…

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2305 into law, enacting restrictions on the influence private equity firms, hedge funds and other outside investors can exert over the legal…

ARAG has reported total UK income of £244 million for the 2025 financial year, its first set of results to include the former DAS UK business, though the cost of…

Four states have put new third-party litigation funding restrictions on the books this year, and the trucking industry that lobbied for several of them is already pressing for more. As…

Novarex Capital Partners has closed a second financing round of £16 million, more than tripling the size of its opening £5 million raise and bringing total capital generated across the…

Thomas Goodhead, forced out of the firm he co-founded a year ago, is returning to the Mariana Dam litigation at the head of the rival practice now claiming to be…

Responses to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s consultation on third-party litigation funding have exposed a gap between those who want the regulator to go further and those who want it to…

Siltstone Capital has released the full programme for the first European edition of LITFINCON, which opens in Amsterdam on 7 October with eleven panels and a speaker roster drawn from…

Austrian funder Padronus is financing three new German collective redress actions against Netflix, Apple TV and WOW, structuring its return just below the statutory ceiling that governs funder participation in…

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has approved the £260 million settlement of the opt-out collective action brought against Google on behalf of thousands of UK app developers, clearing the way for…

Burford Capital has set the terms on the refinancing it launched at the start of the week, pricing $300 million of senior secured notes at a coupon of 8.000% and…

A Singapore ruling upholding a US$490.32 million arbitration award against Tata Power is drawing attention across the arbitration bar for what it says about how far arbitrators must go in…

One of the larger law firms working the UK motor finance claims market has cut its annual trading loss but is still running deep net liabilities, with its funding costs…

A coalition of more than 200 corporations and insurers has asked the federal judiciary to write third-party litigation funding disclosure into the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, escalating a campaign…

A new commentary argues that the debate over funder disclosure in patent cases is not really about transparency at all, but about whether an independent inventor’s family retains the value…

The High Court has declined to pause the Mariana dam litigation against BHP while a dispute over who represents the claimants is resolved, keeping the case on its existing timetable….

Administrators for collapsed litigation lender Woodville have filed their formal statement of proposals, and the arithmetic is stark: unsecured creditor claims of £298,681,307 set against £254,734 of cash in the…

Burford Capital has moved to refinance the nearest maturity on its balance sheet, announcing a private offering of senior secured notes and a conditional call on the full $400 million…

Texas is moving closer to requiring parties to disclose outside litigation funding, even though the state’s own rules advisory body recommended against the change last year. As reported by Bloomberg…