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Frustration is mounting over the UK government’s failure to act on reversing the Supreme Court’s 2023 PACCAR decision, with former members of the body that reviewed litigation funding warning that…

Booking.com is facing a planned £2 billion collective action in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal over the pricing provisions in its contracts with hotels, in a claim financed by litigation…

As India weighs how to modernize the financing of disputes, senior advocate Mahesh Agarwal has staked out a clear position: third-party litigation funding should be formally recognized, but lawyers should…

Days after Rocade Capital announced its acquisition of fellow funder Law Finance Group, chief executive Brian Roth is framing the deal as a marker of a maturing asset class, one…

New Jersey has joined the growing list of states moving to regulate third-party litigation funding, with an Assembly bill advancing that would require disclosure of funding agreements and impose substantive…

A Western Australian court has found the litigation funders who backed Julian Wright’s failed fraud claim against his billionaire sister, Angela Bennett, liable for her legal costs, leaving the financial…

The dispute between Nkosana Kenneth Makate, the inventor of Vodacom’s “Please Call Me” service, and his former litigation funders has escalated sharply, with Makate now seeking to bring criminal charges…

Mounting delays across the UK’s civil courts and employment tribunals are forcing a rethink in the legal expenses insurance sector, according to a new report that warns extended claim lifecycles…

A coalition of more than 20 European news publishers is pursuing Google for roughly €640 million (£552 million) in damages over alleged abuses in its advertising technology business, in a…

The Milestone Foundation, a western New York nonprofit that bills itself as the country’s only organization dedicated to litigation funding for plaintiffs, has assembled a new advisory council to advance…

A Singapore court has affirmed an arbitral award denying a successful litigant’s attempt to recover more than $14 million in third-party funding costs, reinforcing the principle that funding expenses are…

Illinois has joined a growing list of states moving to rein in non-lawyer ownership and control of law firms, advancing legislation that restricts the influence of private equity, hedge funds,…

A new opinion piece is pressing New York lawmakers to close what the author calls a “champerty loophole,” arguing that gaps in the state’s centuries-old prohibition on financing others’ lawsuits…

Rocade Capital has acquired litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, the company announced Wednesday, combining the two firms into a platform with more than $2.3 billion in deployed capital. The…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has declined to reconsider its ruling in favor of Argentina in the long-running YPF expropriation dispute, dealing another blow to Burford…

The administrator of UK litigation funder Fenchurch Legal is investigating a series of transfers that moved a large portion of the company’s loan book and subsidiary shares in the days…

As third-party litigation funding becomes a routine feature of complex commercial disputes, courts and litigants are increasingly grappling with a threshold question: when, if ever, must funding agreements be disclosed…

The long-running dispute between Nkosana Kenneth Makate, the inventor of Vodacom’s “Please Call Me” service, and his former litigation funders has taken a fresh turn, with the funders asserting an…

A litigation-funded class action has secured a landmark ruling against ANZ Bank New Zealand, with the High Court finding the bank breached the Consumer Credit and Consumer Finance Act and…

Omni Bridgeway has moved on two distinct fronts in recent weeks, pairing a first-of-its-kind pro bono disbursement facility for migrant domestic workers in Asia with a high-profile commercial commitment to…

AIM-listed litigation funder Litigation Capital Management has secured a one-month extension of its debt covenant waiver from senior lender Northleaf to June 30, 2026, while disclosing negative developments in two…

The U.S. meat industry trade press has stepped back to examine how third-party litigation funding became central to the multi-year wave of antitrust cases against Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride, and…

The U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal probe of American Future Republic, a Chicago-based nonprofit run by LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman that helped pay for E. Jean Carroll’s…

AI-driven legal-risk company Darrow has launched a platform that lets contingency firms manage their dockets as investment portfolios, packaging case discovery, merits vetting, settlement-value forecasting, and live case tracking into…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has secured a four-part auto-insurance and tort reform package as part of the state’s FY27 enacted budget, marking what her office described as the most…

A new analysis argues that the combination of artificial intelligence tooling and ready access to litigation capital is steadily reversing the historical resource advantage defense firms held over plaintiffs’ lawyers…

Consumer legal funder Legal-Bay has announced that it is providing non-recourse pre-settlement funding to plaintiffs pursuing sexual abuse claims against schools, religious institutions, youth organizations, healthcare providers, and employers, as…

Private equity firms — and a growing number of established litigation funders — are accelerating their push into U.S. personal injury law firms through management services organizations, a structure that…

The class representative in the Merricks v Mastercard collective claim has urged a London court to reject litigation funder Innsworth Advisors’ judicial review of the £200 million settlement distribution, in…

Consumer legal funder Legal-Bay has announced that it is providing pre-settlement funding to plaintiffs in the AFFF firefighting foam mass tort, as nationwide litigation tied to PFAS-related cancers and other…