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Seeking litigation finance for your company or client? Here’s what you need to know before signing a term sheet.

In determining whether to fund a case, professional litigation funders put each potential investment through rigorous due diligence, which typically takes 30 to 45 days.

In the first of this four-part series, find out what to look for in partnering with a litigation financier and why entering into an NDA is of utmost importance.

Ever wondered what type of information you can share with a litigation funder? IMF Associate Investment Manager, Kate Hurford, explains a funder's responsibilities when dealing with confidential documents.

A pending decision from SCOTUS on the constitutionality of inter partes review could change the patent litigation landscape. With the underlying nature of IP at the heart of the case, here’s what you need to know.

Alternative litigation financing is regulated in the UK and Wales through the Code of Conduct of the Association of Litigation Funders of England and Wales. In the US, the commercial financing industry is newer and so far, the commercial litigation funders have not yet established a formal association. Bentham suggests that guiding principles would help assure claimholders, lawyers, and the courts of the solidarity and moral compass of a U.S. association of commercial litigation funders.

Bentham’s investment can assist oil and gas industry companies that are considering or have filed for bankruptcy.

Bentham IMF has once again recruited talent from a top Canadian firm to keep pace with the high volume of funding inquiries it has received since January 2016, when it became the first global commercial litigation finance firm to enter the Canadian market.

Litigation funding can provide a highly effective way to increase revenue without compromising the bottom line at law firms and corporations.

A £14 billion class action against MasterCard in the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has been stopped in its tracks, following its failure to be certified as a 'collective proceeding'. IMF Bentham Investment Manager, Oliver Gayner, explains more about the recent decision and what it means for the new UK class action regime.

Learn more about the ways smaller companies and their counsel use litigation funding to their advantage.

Financial support is the benefit most often sought by claimants who use third party litigation funding to pursue meritorious commercial litigation claims. The benefits of working with Bentham, however, also include additional advantages that can improve a claimant’s chances for litigation success.

Once again, the work product doctrine has been affirmed as a shield against the production of documents shared with litigation finance firms.

For those looking to launch a litigation boutique firm, a primary concern is how to cover initial overhead expenses without personally acquiring mountains of debt. Here’s how portfolio funding can help.

Lord David Neuberger is no ordinary judge. As President of the UK Supreme Court, he has been campaigning to promote access to justice for many years.

Learn more about the ways that litigation finance can help management committees create value for their firms and clients

IMF Bentham bought together a panel of class action experts to provide their insight on the current issues in finalising class action litigation. Here’s what they had to say.

ABCs are an increasingly common choice for insolvent companies looking to liquidate assets without going through the traditional Chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy process.

Maurice Blackburn Principal, Rebecca Gilsenan, and UNSW Law Associate Professor, Michael Legg, recently presented a detailed report on class action settlement distribution schemes. The research was presented as part of the IMF Bentham Class Actions Research Initiative conference.

In this Debtwire podcast, Bentham IMF’s Dave Kerstein, along with Morgan Lewis’ Ed Smith and James Moore, discuss financing litigation in the distressed space.