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Member Spotlight:  Lewis Edmonds

By Lewis Edmonds |
August 20, 2024

Member Spotlight:  Lewis Edmonds

Lewis Edmonds is a Director of Fibre Group and is a seasoned financial planner with over 10 years of expertise in cross-border planning, wealth management, and alternative investments. He serves a diverse clientele across the UK, USA, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America, offering tailored solutions that include diversification, wealth creation, and risk hedging strategies. 

Lewis’s comprehensive approach ensures clients achieve their financial goals while navigating the complexities of international finance. Lewis manages the group’s portfolio of investment opportunities and fund management providers, whilst assessing new opportunities to enhance the company’s offering. 

Company Name and Description: Based in the United Kingdom, Fibre Group focuses on cross-border payments, cross-border wealth and alternative investment strategies. 

The payments side of the businesses ensures clients have access to highly competitive exchange rates through multi-currency banking solutions, and guidance to manage foreign exchange risk, which is often a significant consideration for international property transactions and cross-border wealth matters. 

Fibre Capital focuses on international wealth management and alternative investment, by providing tailored strategies that are customised to individual goals and risk preferences.

Acknowledging the limitations of conventional banking, Fibre looks beyond public markets and traditional investments to identify solutions that diversity, balance and enhance clients’ portfolios. 

Within the Litigation funding ecosystem, Fibre’s role is to introduce their active and growing client base of investors, to investment opportunities in the litigation funding space, via loan note, corporate bond, or direct investment. 

Company Website: www.fibrepayments.com — https://fibre.capital

Year Founded:  2021

Headquarters:  London

Area of Focus:  Traditional wealth management and alternative investment strategies for our active client base. 

Member Quote: “In an ever-changing economic landscape, we are actively seeking innovative investment strategies, to ensure the best outcome for our clients and opportunities in litigation financing are increasingly becoming an attractive alternative asset class, for our clients.”

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By John Freund |

One of the most closely watched trials in recent memory now has a confirmed litigation funder behind it, adding a new dimension to a case some observers are calling a potential "Big Tobacco moment" for the technology industry.

As reported by Bloomberg Law, the Social Media Victims Law Center, a lead firm in litigation alleging that social media platforms have caused widespread addiction among young users, has secured backing from Flashlight Capital. Public records indicate the funding arrangement dates back to June 2024.

The case carries enormous financial stakes. Billions of dollars in potential liability are on the table for major technology companies, with testimony from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the company's youth-oriented strategies forming a centerpiece of the proceedings. The involvement of a litigation funder underscores the scale and complexity of the claims, which span multiple jurisdictions and plaintiffs.

For the litigation finance industry, the case represents a high-profile test of how third-party funding can support sprawling, resource-intensive consumer protection litigation. The outcome could shape both the future of platform liability and the appetite of funders to back similarly ambitious cases against deep-pocketed defendants.

The trial is being closely monitored across the legal and technology sectors as a potential bellwether for how courts evaluate the role social media companies play in youth mental health outcomes.

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Edenreach Report Makes the Case for AI and Ethical Capital to Bridge the Global Justice Gap

By John Freund |

A new white paper argues that artificial intelligence and mission-aligned investment capital could help close a justice gap that currently affects roughly 5.1 billion people worldwide.

As reported by Edenreach, the female-founded justice fintech company's report identifies three primary barriers preventing vulnerable populations from accessing legal assistance: economic hardship and geographic distance, the complexity of legal matters requiring expert knowledge, and systemic discrimination targeting marginalized communities. These obstacles are compounded by shrinking legal aid budgets and insufficient resources for pro bono and nonprofit legal organizations.

The report proposes a "justice finance" model that treats legal cases aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as investable impact assets. This framework aims to combine measurable financial returns with accountability for governance failures, drawing from a largely untapped $3.33 trillion global market of capital that seeks both social outcomes and competitive returns.

On the technology side, the report cites research from the British Institute of International and Comparative Law showing that AI-powered tools — including real-time translation, simplified legal explanations, and automated resource matching — can significantly expand the reach of legal professionals to underserved populations.

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MAGA Backers Reflect Rare Split on Regulating Litigation Funders

By John Freund |

An unusual political coalition has emerged in opposition to proposed legislation that would regulate or tax litigation funders, revealing deep divisions even among close allies of the Trump administration.

As reported by Bloomberg Law, the split pits MAGA-aligned figures, progressive Democrats, and trial lawyers against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and corporate-backed Republicans. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has proposed taxing litigation funder profits, while Representative Darrell Issa of California introduced disclosure requirements for civil cases. Both efforts have drawn pushback from unexpected quarters.

Laura Loomer, a Trump-aligned commentator, publicly criticized the Tillis bill as empowering "woke corporations," while America First Legal, the organization founded by Stephen Miller, warned that disclosure mandates could create privacy threats. Conservative nonprofits have argued that funder transparency requirements could reveal donors on politically sensitive issues including religious liberty and abortion. On the other side of the aisle, Representative Jamie Raskin, a progressive Democrat, found himself aligned with the Alliance Defending Freedom in opposing the proposals.

The article also highlights financial interests that may be shaping the debate. Donald Trump Jr. has invested in patent litigation companies, and Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo has connections to Vallecito Capital, which backs conservative legal cases.

Both the Tillis tax proposal and the Issa disclosure bill have stalled in Congress, with momentum fading after the initial pushback from this bipartisan — and often ideologically contradictory — coalition.