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A new opinion piece defends third-party litigation funding as a precondition for small businesses and independent inventors being able to enforce their intellectual property rights, and argues that pending federal…

Pogust Goodhead has escalated its dispute over control of the multi-billion-pound Mariana dam group action against BHP, taking the matter to the High Court rather than accepting the claimant committee’s…

A Delaware investment vehicle closely affiliated with Burford Capital is pursuing a debt claim of roughly $109 million against Alberta lawyer Jeffrey Rath and his firm, Rath & Company, alleging…

A businessman and litigation funder has emerged as a recurring figure in the decades-long fight between Nkosana Makate and Vodacom over the “Please Call Me” service, following reporting on the…

Manolete Partners has told shareholders that trading in the current financial year is running in line with board expectations, with realised revenues ahead of the prior year and continued growth…

Roughly £390 million appears to have passed through Woodville Consultants Ltd, the collapsed litigation funder whose failure prompted a Financial Conduct Authority warning about retail investors buying unregulated loan notes….

The professional parties behind the UK collective action against Google have agreed to forgo £34 million of their contractual entitlement ahead of a Competition Appeal Tribunal hearing to approve the…

Stockholm-based Litigium Capital has appointed two new directors and expanded its investment committee, in a set of pan-Nordic hires that also marks a change at the top of the board….

Two Malaysian jurists have published a retrospective on the Sulu arbitration, drawing a direct line from the failure of the funded US$15 billion claim against Malaysia to the statutory framework…

A statewide survey of likely New York voters has found that close to four in five would do away with third-party litigation funding altogether, placing the practice among the least…

A Dubai court has given a defendant in a $456 million stablecoin dispute until 7 September to swear an affidavit identifying who has been paying his lawyers, in an unusually…

The founders of mass tort firm Keller Postman and litigation funder Gerchen Capital Partners have launched Atticor Group, a management services organisation that takes economic exposure to personal injury law…

The Singapore International Commercial Court has upheld an arbitral tribunal’s refusal to award third-party funding costs, rejecting arguments that denying such recovery offends public policy or amounts to a procedural…

Pogust Goodhead has publicly rejected the decision to replace it as solicitors for claimants in the multi-billion pound group action against BHP, arguing that the client committee that voted to…

Carta Law, the AI-native law firm serving private capital, has announced four senior appointments across its Compliance and Contracts practices, deepening its bench as asset managers turn to technology-backed managed…

Bailey Glasser International has taken over conduct of the multi-billion pound group claim against BHP arising from the 2015 collapse of the Fundão Dam in Mariana, Brazil, replacing Pogust Goodhead…

A principal at commercial litigation funder GLS Capital has argued that courts should resolve document discovery disputes using baseball arbitration, the winner-takes-all format used to settle professional baseball salary disputes,…

Among the proposals in the UK government’s overhaul of the opt-out collective actions regime is a change to when litigation funders actually get paid, a mechanic that has drawn less…

Lexolent chief executive Nick Rowles-Davies has argued that the campaign group driving the UK’s litigation funding regulation debate is an American lobbying effort operating under a British name, and that…

California lawmakers have sent Governor Gavin Newsom legislation that would prohibit litigation funders, private equity firms and other outside investors from influencing case strategy, settlement decisions or client intake at…

India has no dedicated statutory or regulatory framework for third-party litigation funding, the government has confirmed in Parliament that it has no proposal to create one, and the market is…

After-the-event insurers are being told to expect higher premiums, tighter limits and harder underwriting questions on group claims following the costs ruling against Prince Harry and his six co-claimants in…

The Federal Court of Australia has approved a A$22.5 million settlement in a class action against two former Commonwealth Bank wealth management units, under which group members will receive A$5.12…

Litigation Capital Management has secured another one-month extension of the covenant waiver on its debt facility with Northleaf Capital Partners, moving the expiry from 31 August to 30 September 2026….

Lawfront, the private equity-backed group that has assembled a portfolio of regional UK law firms since 2021, has named former esure Group chief executive Peter Martin-Simon as its new chief…

A newly published opinion piece argues that the push to compel disclosure of third-party litigation funding has moved past isolated state experiments and become a coordinated reform effort spanning Congress,…

Alphabet has agreed to pay £260 million to settle a UK collective action brought on behalf of app developers over Google Play commissions, with £160 million earmarked for the class…

California lawmakers have passed a pair of bills that would restrict the influence outside capital can exert over litigation, sending both measures to Governor Gavin Newsom for signature. Together they…

The head of personal lines at Ignite Specialty Risk has argued that standard after-the-event indemnity limits are being outgrown by higher-value claims and group actions, and that insurers need to…

Lawyers at Signature Litigation have argued that the UK government’s latest consultation on the opt-out collective actions regime must raise the certification bar without loading additional cost and delay onto…