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The Law Commission of New Zealand suspended its examination of litigation funding last year due to resource constraints, but in the wake of several high profile class actions funded by…

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 20 JUNE 2019: IMF Bentham (ASX:IMF) (operating in the US and Canada as Bentham IMF) announces the launch of a new US$500 million fund (‘Fund 5’) to underwrite non-US disputes around the…

Consumer legal funder RD Legal has filed its opening brief in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal. The funder is appealing Judge Loretta Preska’s June 2018 order to void its…

Recently, Conagra Brands and Kraft Heinz sued Tyson Foods and other chicken suppliers for allegedly conspiring to inflate prices. That comes on the back of a large antitrust claim agains…

Institutional investors continue to pour money into the litigation finance sector. The prospect of attractive returns, uncorrelated to broader equity/bond markets, which may actually increase post-recession given the influx of…

At last week’s 2nd Annual Financing, Structuring and Investing in Litigation Finance conference, hosted by IMN in New York City, the third panel of the day discussed the topic of…

UK law firm Rosenblatt went public last year, and in the process announced plans to open a litigation funding arm. The law firm now has five cases under consideration, and…

Lawdragon, a provider of free online guides for US-based legal news, has named IMF Bentham CEO Andrew Saker and Bentham IMF (the US subsidiary of IMF Bentham) CIO Allison Chock…

First there was Peter Thiel, who backed Hulk Hogan’s successful lawsuit against Gawker, and now there’s Ronald Perelman. Perelman, who runs the conglomerate MacAndrews & Forbes Group (MAFG), has been secretly…

The comment period for the NYC Bar’s recent opinion on third party funding has ended. The NYC Bar found that when funders collect a percentage of fees, the practice constitutes…

At yesterday’s 2nd annual IMN Conference on Litigation Finance, a crowd of industry participants, experts, and interested parties gathered at The Union League Club in Midtown Manhattan to discuss key…

AMP, the Aussie financial giant which is facing a massive shareholder class action being led by law firm Maurice Blackburn on a no win, no fee basis, is facing a…

There have been numerous attempts so far, and here comes another one: LawCoin is poised to introduce litigation finance to the blockchain by allowing accredited retail investors to finance and…

The Consumer Legal Funding industry is facing another test in the state of Nevada, where bill SB 432 has already passed the Senate and now awaits a floor vote in…

Third party funding has been legal in India since at least 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled that there is nothing morally wrong with outside funding of legal cases, as…

At the recent General Counsel Forum on Litigation Finance, both funders and lawyers came together to discuss a variety of topics facing the industry. One of those is defense-side funding….

PHOENIX, May 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Pravati Capital, a leading litigation finance and law firm consulting company, announced today it has named Adam C. Tubbs as Director of Business Development for the Company’s New York City office….

The class action against the New South Wales Department of Defense, alleging contamination of the chemical PFAS which originated at a nearby Air Force base, has been delayed until next…

At last week’s General Counsel Forum on Litigation Finance, several panel discussions covered a broad array of industry topics. In his opening remarks, co-chair Scott Mozarsky of Vannin Capital promised a…

The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) has released its Litigation Funding Rules, which explain the requirements a funder must meet in order to be officially recognized by the UAE government….

Cleveland-based law firm McDonald Hopkins is starting its own litigation funding division, with ex-Longford director Marc Carmel leading the charge. Read More…

On Wednesday, May 1st, funders, lawyers and in-house counsel gathered to discuss litigation funding at Momentum Events’ inaugural General Counsel Forum on Litigation Finance. Read More…

Litigation funding is now firmly entrenched in the Legal Services market – or more accurately, half the Legal Services market. While plaintiff-side funding is all the rage, defense-side funding is…

Journalist Peter Greste, formerly of Al Jazeera’s Egyptian bureau, was imprisoned by the Egyptian government for coordinating with The Muslim Brotherhood, a group branded a terrorist organization  by Egyptian authorities….

Zachary Cefaratti, the CEO of Dubai-based Dalma Capital is classifying litigation funding as “the most attractive asset class we’ve seen.” Cefaratti loves the risk/return profile, coupled with the relatively short lifecycle of…

YieldStreet, the digital platform for crowdfunded alternative investments including litigation finance and real estate, is expanding into art financing with the purchase of Athena Art Finance for $170MM. Read More…

Ralph Sutton, CEO of Validity Finance, has issued a bristling, statistics-laden response to the U.S. Chamber’s recent calls for regulation of the litigation finance industry. Read More…

This past week, Harvard Law School held its first-ever Litigation Finance Symposium. The event drew experienced professionals and curious students and academics alike, and sought to answer some practical questions…

Freeths, the law firm representing the pool of over 500 sub-postmasters who are suing the UK Post Office for wrongful termination and damages due to unfair business practices, has filed…

It’s Women’s History Month, so there’s no better time to evaluate the state of equal representation for women (or lack thereof) when it comes to international arbitration. Despite much discussion…