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Litigation Finance: Investor Perspectives

We convene a panel of industry subject matter experts who will provide their insights around how investors are approaching litigation funding in 2024, including key topics and trends such as:

  • What financial metrics are they most interested in?
  • How critical are issues like duration risk and regulatory pressure in their decision-making?
  • What can fund managers do to best position themselves to secure an investment?
  • And much more!

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Legal Funding Journal Virtual Town Hall | Spotlight on: Australia

For this event, we will convene a panel of industry subject matter experts who will provide their insights around the nuances of legal funding in Australia, including key topics and trends such as:
  • The changing regulatory landscape, including the emergence of contingency fee arrangements
  • The evolution of the securities, consumer and commercial class action markets within Australia
  • The growing trend of trial losses in Australian class actions, and what funders need to be aware
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Legal Funding Journal Virtual Town Hall – Spotlight on Insurance

We will convene a panel of industry subject matter experts who will provide their insights around the growing intersection between legal funding and insurance, including key topics and trends such as:
  • What is the overall state of the legal insurance market? What are the current trends and forecasts regarding the intersection of these two industries?
  • How can funders incorporate insurance products into their underwriting and claims selection processes?
  • What are the current challenges facing insurers in the legal funding market?  How are they seeking to overcome those challenges?
  •  How have recent losses in the JPI market impacted insurers’ willingness to underwrite these policy types?
  • Given that litigation funders and insurers are at odds over regulatory issues, how can we engender greater cooperation between these two sectors?
  • And more!
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Legal Funding Journal Virtual Town Hall: PACCAR Revisited

We convene a panel of industry subject matter experts who will revisit the 2023 PACCAR decision and provide their insights around the future of legal funding in the UK, including key topics and trends such as:
  • A recap of the PACCAR decision and its potential implications, along with the predictions made by funders and industry experts at the time
  • How have those predictions panned out? What exactly have the implications been for UK litigation funders and the broader legal services industry over the past year?
  • Are funders reconsidering the UK market entirely? Or just changing their underwriting standards, or perhaps building in an additional risk premium into their pricing, given the PACCAR decision?
  • From a PR perspective, what have funders been doing differently, and how can they help persuade both the judiciary and the general public that this industry should not be over-regulated?
  • Where will we go from here?  What does the future look like in terms of the regulatory environment for litigation funding in the UK and beyond?
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