PURE Business Group (PURE), the multi-discipline legal services business, has today announced a new £multi-million funding facility with Sandfield Capital. PURE, which currently handles over 12,000 new instructions each year, hopes that this move will dramatically accelerate its ability to develop record numbers of cases over the next few years.
Legal-Bay, The Pre Settlement Funding Company, announced today that they are preparing their underwriters for an increase in personal injury applications over the coming months. The first half of 2021 saw an unprecedented number of claims filed, and now that summer is well underway with crowds of people getting out and about, they expect to see even more.
The following piece was contributed by Eric Schuller, President of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC).
Consumer Legal Funding is when a company provides funds to a consumer who has a pending legal claim, typically a car accident, while their case is making its way through the legal system. The funds are used for household needs such as mortgage, rent, car payments, keeping the light on and putting food on the table. The funds are not used to pay for legal fees associated with the claim or case.
Liti Capital SA , the blockchain litigation finance company, announces an investment of $5 Million. This $5m will be used to purchase assets worth up to a potential $50m. Of the initial private raise of $12m, $10m was used to secure assets worth up to $100m of potential asset value. Once this new $5m is deployed in an asset purchase, the combined $150m potential value dwarfs the current market cap of $25m. Those assets are what back the LITI equity token.
Legal-Bay Pre Settlement Funding reports an expansion to their capital needs now that funding applications are on the rise. The entire legal system had practically ground to a halt due to Covid-19, which caused massive delays in the courts. But now that life is starting to return to normal, backlogged dockets are being addressed. With renewed activity, Legal-Bay is seeing an increase in applications for settlement funding.
The following article was contributed by J-P Pitt, Investment Manager at Asertis.
Stating the obvious, the principal reason a funder chooses to fund enforcement, as with every aspect of litigation funding, is to receive more at the end than is paid at the beginning. In practical terms, enforcement extends beyond being purely a legal process. Much of it involves practical project management, where litigation is one of two key workstreams. The other is influence or persuasion – communications or PR. These two elements are entirely complementary and complimentary.
Litigation Capital Management Limited, a global provider of disputes funding, publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, is pleased to announce the hire of William Panlilio as an Investment Manager based in Singapore.
Less than two years since launching the company and its first investor fund, Apex Litigation Finance has begun marketing its second fund. The firm is inviting commitments from investors keen to add an asset class alternative investment to their portfolio.
Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today releases new independent research probing how CFOs and senior financial officers influence corporate legal departments, legal spend and their companies’ success in recovering value through affirmative recoveries.
LegalTech company, Disputed.io, has increased investment to over £1.5m from its latest round of investment. The latest funding follows on the back of significant growth for the business after the launch of its first product, CaseFunnel, an automated claims solution 13 months ago. Eighty per cent of the investors followed-on, on the back of the soft-launch of the business’ latest product, FinLegal the first online marketplace for litigation funding.
Dispute financing solutions provider Litigation Capital Management said it had agred to provide litigation funding to Geoffrey Carton-Kelly, a partner of FRP Advisory, additional liquidator of CGL Realisations Ltd, formerly known as Comet, seeking to recover £83 million from Darty.
Longford Capital Management, LP today announced that it has entered into a $50 million funding agreement with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP to provide equity capital to fund attorneys’ fees and litigation costs, and to monetize the value of meritorious legal claims for Willkie’s clients involved in commercial litigation cases handled by lawyers based in Willkie’s Chicago office.
On Tuesday June 15th, LFJ hosted a special digital event on Australia: The Evolution of a Litigation Finance Market. Moderator Ed Truant (ET), founder of Slingshot Capital, helmed a panel discussion that covered a broad range of issues facing the Australian market. Panelists included Andrew Saker (AS), CEO of Omni Bridgeway, Stuart Price (SP), CEO of CASL, and Patrick Moloney (PM), CEO of Litigation Capital Management.
Liti Capital SA, a Swiss Litigation Finance company, is launching into the world of crypto tokenisation with the goal of providing retail investors with investment opportunities previously only available to the top 1 per cent of investors.
The appointment of Jan Buza and Jozef Maruscak provides key support for Apex’s growth strategy, strengthening resources to meet a significant increase in case numbers.
On Tuesday, June 15th, 6pm EST, Litigation Finance Journal is hosting a roundtable discussion on the evolution of Litigation Finance in Australia. Topics will include the increasing threat of industry regulation, the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s perspective on litigation funding and class actions, how Australia may serve as a blueprint of sorts for global jurisdictions including the US, UK and EU, and the structural and cultural differences inherent to running a litigation funding firm in Australia.
Forbes Ventures announces an update to its first Litigation Funding Securitisation. The listing and closing of the GBP 40 million two-year notes (the “First Issue”), for which Forbes Ventures’ wholly owned subsidiary, Forbes Ventures Investment Management Limited (“FVIM”), acts as Collateral Agent, has been subjected to further administrative delays. Those delays have not been within the control of the Company or FVIM.
Longford Capital, a leader in the commercial litigation finance industry, today announced that on May 31, 2021, Laura P. Pearl will begin her retirement and transition to a senior advisor role with the firm. Ms. Pearl has been Longford’s Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer since 2016.
Litigation funder Asertis today announces the launch of a new commercial litigation and arbitration disputes funding division backed by a well-known fund with available capital of over €1.7bn (approx. £1.46bn), as well as their financing of the Slater & Gordon Mercedes group litigation, and their new CIO and a further lateral hire from Harbour Litigation Funding.
Mining company Pathfinder Minerals booked a full-year, as it continues to pursue a legal claim over ownership rights in Mozambique.
The Honourable Justice Glustein signed the Flight PS752 Class Action certification order for the class action arising from the downing of UIA Flight PS752. On January 8, 2020, UIA Flight PS752 was shot down moments after takeoff from Iran on its way to Canada via Ukraine. There were no survivors.
Boies Schiller Flexner (UK) LLP (“BSF“) is building a group of investors across Europe and Asia who invested in Credit Suisse’s US$10bn Supply Chain Finance Funds (“SCFFs“). It is intended that the group will pursue Credit Suisse, including through litigation if necessary, to recover losses suffered with respect to the investments made in or with Greensill Capital.
Augusta Ventures, a specialist asset manager focussed on the litigation and dispute funding sector, has closed its third pool of funding with £250m of new commitments (including Augusta Ventures co-investment), bringing the firm’s AuM to £585m and enabling the firm to fund an unprecedented pipeline of opportunities in high value litigation and dispute scenarios.
Validity Finance is pleased to welcome Harvard law students Marlon Becerra and Shao-Jia Chang for its 2021 Equal Access Fellowship. The program, in its third year, provides a 10-week paid summer fellowship to first-year law students of diverse backgrounds.
The following piece is a contribution by Charles W. Price, CEO of Capital Now Funding, LLC.
The following scenario was once all too common – plaintiffs injured in an accident, waiting impatiently for a complex lawsuit to settle. With the clock ticking and the plaintiff often unable to work, there was little they could do except wait for the phone to ring while medical and other bills kept piling up. Meanwhile, their attorneys must candidly tell them that it will be weeks to months or years before they might receive their settlement money.
Leading litigation funder Validity Finance has selected Harvard law students Marlon Becerra and Shao-Jia Chang for its 2021 Equal Access Fellowship. The program, in its third year, provides a 10-week paid summer fellowship to first-year law students of diverse backgrounds.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns a preliminary rating to one class of notes from TVEST 2021A, LLC, an asset-backed securities (ABS) transaction collateralized by litigation finance and medical receivables serviced by Experity Ventures LLC (“Experity”).
Delta Capital Partners Management LLC, a global private equity firm specializing in litigation and legal finance, is pleased to announce the launch of a new venture, Delta Defense Solutions (“DDS“).
