The UK’s Legal industry generated revenues of £2.35bn in May 2020, 12% down on May last year. May 2020 was the lowest-earning month in four years, according to Office of National Statistics data released on 14th July.
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 1, 2020 — Delta Capital Partners Management LLC, a global private equity firm specializing in litigation and legal finance, today announced the hiring of a Chief Marketing Officer and a Marketing Associate.
CHICAGO, Illinois, June 30, 2020 — Forteam Investments Ltd., an investment company controlled by the American private equity firm Delta Capital Partners Management LLC (“Delta”), which is seeking approximately USD $86 million from Mariusz Świtalski and companies he controls, has secured an injunction against Świtalski and his assets.
NEW YORK (June 24, 2020) – Leading litigation funder Validity Finance has selected University of Chicago Law School law student Amber S. Stewart for its 2020 Equal Access Fellowship. The program, launched last year, provides a 10-week paid summer fellowship to first-year law students of diverse backgrounds to spend the first half of their summer at Validity learning the basic principles of litigation funding before spending the second half working at the non-profit of their choice. Validity is one of the only funders to provide such a program for first-year law students.
Total Commitments Exceeding $465 Million
Parabellum Capital LLC (“Parabellum”), a leader in commercial litigation finance, today announced the final closing of its latest private investment fund, Parabellum Partners II, LP (the “Fund”), with over $465 million in commitments. The Fund is Parabellum’s second broadly-offered private investment fund since its founding in 2012.
Baker Street Funding, America’s #1 Choice for Legal Funding Firm, announced today that they have launched a commercial litigation focused legal funding division. This new division will focus on commercial litigation, lawsuit loans, or advances and attorney loans. Commercial litigation is often extremely complex and time-consuming. The cost of litigating these claims has increased exponentially and Baker Street Funding finds it as an under-served market in which they can thrive.
MIAMI, June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Leste Group is pleased to announce that Rodrigo Machado has joined its team as Managing Director of US Real Estate. Mr. Machado joined in May 2020 and will be focused on further expanding Leste Group’s Real Estate investments business across the USA, in addition to overseeing Leste Group’s existing investments in the Multifamily, Single Family Homes for Rental, Hospitality and Healthcare sectors.
Baker Street Funding, LLC (Baker Street), a legal funding company located in New York and South Florida, is committing to increasing their litigation funding efforts on settled cases. This type of legal funding provides contingency fee based attorney and their clients with immediate liquidity to help bridge the gap between settlement and payment distribution.
The first episode in this series is titled “An Introduction to a New Yet Old Funding Alternative” and is co-produced by West LegalEdCenter™. It will feature Jeremy Waitzman (Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP); Dave Kerstein (Validity Finance LLC); Christopher Freeman (Burford Capital); Joel Cohen (Stout); and Jeffery Lula (GLS Capital, LLC).
HOUSTON, April 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Lex Mundi, in conjunction with members of the Lex Mundi Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Group, has published the first-of-its kind interactive guide – Lex Mundi Global Attorney-Client Privilege Guide. This one-of-a kind guide allows users to compare common and civil law attorney-client privilege information for more than 65 jurisdictions around the world — all in a side-by-side customized report.
