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LexShares Further Expands Investments Team with Strategic Hiring of Kenneth Harmon

By John Freund |
LexShares, a leading commercial litigation finance firm, today announced the addition of Kenneth Harmon as Director of Risk & Deputy General Counsel. Drawing on a 28-year background prosecuting white-collar criminal matters and whistleblower-related litigation for the federal government, Mr. Harmon will be evaluating and servicing a growing pipeline of legal claim investment opportunities as a member of the firm’s Investments Group.
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Therium Makes Case for Monetization of Corporate Litigation Assets in New Publication

By John Freund |

Therium, a leading global provider of litigation, arbitration and specialty legal finance, is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication aimed at educating corporations and their legal departments on the importance of monetizing their litigation assets through structured affirmative recovery programs. A Good Offense: The Therium Guide to Creating an Affirmative Recovery Program, is available as a progressive eBook, beginning today with the release of chapter 1, which introduces the concept of affirmative recovery and delves into its history. New chapters will be released during the last week of each month moving forward.

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Investor Caution in the Wake of a Hard Insurance Market

By John Freund |
The insurance industry is facing a hard market thanks to multiple factors including the COVID pandemic. Hard markets are a time of high insurance premiums, more precise and complex underwriting, fewer policies being written, and a shrinking pool of competitors. With that in mind, insurers are raising money to make the most of opportunities as they arise. At the same time, investors are understandably cautious.
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Allianz: Five Liability Loss Trends for Businesses in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic

By John Freund |
Liability exposures for companies around the world are increasing. Factors such as rising litigation, collective redress and large court verdicts, costly and frequent recalls in the automotive and food sectors, the disruptive impact of civil unrest and riots in a growing number of countries, and environmental concerns such as indoor air quality and higher fines and remediation standards will likely impact businesses and their insurers in the future – all in the face of a challenging global pandemic, according to a new report from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) which highlights five trends for the sector.
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Segue Cloud Services Introduces Segue 3.0 Platform

By John Freund |
Segue Cloud Services, a division of Woodstock Capital Holdings, has released its Segue 3.0 platform, a cloud-based platform which  combines all pre-settlement funding workflows and processes, data recovery, and digitized document management features. Segue is a leading provider of cloud-based management tools for the legal and specialty finance community. It has served litigation finance companies and law offices around the country since 2010.
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Litigation Funder Affiniti Finance Raises £250m for Litigation and Dispute Funding

By John Freund |
Affiniti Finance, the UK’s leading Consumer Credit litigation funder announces a £250m capital raise deal with a multi-billion dollar US based fund, which it said would ‘significantly’ increase its ability to fund the large volume of mid-range cases, specifically in the financial mis-selling and personal injury sector in the UK.
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Legal-Bay Pre-Settlement Funding Announces Expansion of Car Accident and Personal Injury Departments Due to Rising Amount of Cases

By John Freund |
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Legal-Bay, the premier Pre Settlement Funding Company, announced today that they have expanded their car accident and personal injury departments due to the influx of new filings during the first half of 2020. Legal-Bay is one of the leading lawsuit loan companies in the industry, and offers a very fast approval process.
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Defrauded Investor Scores Victory in Qatari Court Saga

By John Freund |
DOHA, Qatar, Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Swifthold Foundation, which was defrauded by Sheikh Fahad bin Ahmad bin Mohamed bin Thani Al Thani, a member of the Qatari Royal Family, and his Qatari company, Fast Trading Group, has been patiently waiting for the Qatari Enforcement Court to enforce Swifthold’s $6 billion U.K. High Court Judgment since the Qatari Trial Court issued a Writ of Execution to formally recognize the Judgment in Qatar in the Summer of 2019.
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Litigation Capital Management (LCM) announces its third corporate portfolio transaction

By John Freund |
Litigation Capital Management Limited, a global provider of disputes funding, publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, is pleased to announce it has executed an agreement to finance a corporate portfolio transaction to provide a significant finance facility to a subsidiary of a global building and infrastructure contractor to fund a portfolio of its construction claims.
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CrosstownHelp™: BridgePoint Financial announces Expropriation and Business-Loss Consulting for those affected by delayed LRT project

By John Freund |
TORONTO, Aug. 20, 2020 /CNW/ – In response to the more than 3,000 small businesses negatively affected by the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, BridgePoint Financial has launched CrosstownHelpTM, an expropriation and business-loss consulting and financing program to help recoup losses and restore financial and business stability to those impacted by the delayed infrastructure project.
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Correction to Earlier Article Regarding Epistar v. University of California

By John Freund |
A previous post asserted that Longford Capital is funding Epistar’s IP claim against the University of California. That information is incorrect. Longford is funding a separate IP claim filed by the Regents of the University of California, which is unrelated to Epistar’s action against the university. The inaccurate post has been removed, and we regret the error.
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Announcements Consumer

Legal-Bay Announces Update to California Wildfires Negligence Claims

By John Freund |
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Legal Bay Lawsuit Funding reports that California utility company PG&E recently admitted negligence in the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 84 people and destroyed the entire town of Paradise. The fire devastated hundreds of lives and wreaked billions of dollars in property damage, and was the single most destructive wildfire in California’s history.
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DLA PIPER AND LCM COLLABORATE WITH NEW THIRD-PARTY FUNDER FOR DLA PIPER CLIENTS

By John Freund |
DLA Piper has entered into a non-exclusive arrangement with publicly listed disputes financier Litigation Capital Management (LCM), and a newly formed litigation funder, Aldersgate Funding Limited to offer clients of DLA Piper access to £150m for funding large-scale litigation and arbitration. This will be offered on a financial risk-free (non-recourse) basis with a streamlined approval process embedded within the offering.
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Pravati Capital Launches Fifth Specialized Litigation Finance Fund with $200 Million

By John Freund |
PHOENIX, Aug. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Pravati Capital, leading litigation finance pioneer and consulting firm, today announced the launch of its fifth specialized litigation finance investment fund with $200 million, following the success of its four previous funds launched since 2013. Pravati Investment Fund V (Fund V) will allow for the first time non-US and US-tax exempt international qualified investors the opportunity to invest in a specialized litigation finance alternative investment vehicle.
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District Court in Poznań Grants Third Injunction against Mariusz Świtalski to Secure Forteam Investments’ Claims

By John Freund |

WARSAW, Poland, August 5, 2020 — Forteam Investments Ltd., an investment company controlled by U.S. private equity firm Delta Capital Partners Management LLC (“Delta”), which is seeking over PLN 300 million from Mariusz Świtalski and companies he controls, has secured a third court injunction.

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Consumer Special Features

ABA Adopts Guidance in Third-Party Litigation Funding

By John Freund |
This article was contributed by Eric Schuller, President of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC). On August 3, 2020, The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates, by a vote of 366-10, voted to adopt the resolution for “Best Practices for Third-Party Litigation Funding”. This established a slew of national guidelines that law firms, consumers and legal funding companies should follow.
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Pravati Capital Completes Expansion to Key Markets and Adds Accomplished New Hires to its Distinguished Leadership Team

By John Freund |
NEW YORK, July 29, 2020 — Pravati Capital, leading litigation finance pioneer and consulting firm, today announced four new members to its esteemed leadership team, each complementing the firm’s outstanding services and legal insight. Joining Pravati Capital, Bruce Cohen, Douglas Smith, Scott Potter and Shane Ham will bolster the company’s litigation practice with specialized experience to better serve clients.
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