Friday Funding Series: Litigation Funding as a Corporate Finance Tool
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2017 Roundtable: Bentham hosts top Canadian litigators to discuss how far litigation funding has come, and where it might go next
Long before opening in Canada, Bentham engaged with the Canadian legal community to understand the needs of litigants and law firms, and how litigation funding could best satisfy those needs.
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Ethical Litigation Funding in Texas
As the largest commercial litigation funding company in Texas, Bentham IMF is often asked by attorneys in the Lone Star State about specific ethics issues and their relation to funding.
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Litigators Point to Litigation Finance as a Useful and Important Option for Clients
Stevens & Lee P.C. attorneys Eric Robinson and Daniel Huyett urge litigators to discuss litigation finance in an article published by Law360 today, describing it as “a subject that litigators ignore at the risk of a client relationship.”
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Finding Funding in Three Simple Steps
The topic of litigation funding has graced the front pages of America’s legal journals and publications since its arrival in the U.S. marketplace.
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Friday Funding Series: Why the Demand for Litigation Funding Has Increased
What’s driving increased demand for litigation funding? Jim Batson explains in part 4 of our Friday Funding Series.
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Litigation Wary or Litigation Weary? Funding Can Help With Both.
Litigation funding can be a valuable tool in discussions with clients, both when exploring a legal claim and as an action progresses.
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Litigation Funders: Champions or Champertous?
How is litigation funding possible in states with active champerty statutes? We explain how it works in NY.
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Friday Funding Series: Portfolio Funding for Law Firms
How can law firms smooth cash flow while handling multiple cases on contingency? Jim Batson explains in segment 3 of Bentham’s Friday Funding Series.
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Companies Engaging a Wider Variety of Lawyers and Law Firms to Handle their Disputes, Survey Reveals
Norton Rose recently published the results of its 2017 litigation trends annual survey, which highlighted several trends that underscore the importance of managing disputes economically.
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How to get your case financed: basic investment criteria
IMF Bentham Investment Manager for Asia, Tom Glasgow, has outlined the basic investment criteria we use when considering a case for funding.
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How insolvency and restructuring professionals can use litigation funding to investigate and monetize litigation assets
In the World Bank’s recent Resolving Insolvency report, Canada ranked 11th worldwide for the recovery rate by secured creditors through reorganization, liquidation or debt enforcement.
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How to ensure you do not miss out on a class action settlement
Are you a shareholder or investor in a company whose management has engaged in misleading conduct? IMF Bentham Investment Manager, Ewen McNee, explains how participating in a class action can help you recover your losses.
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Cost of Litigation Finance Unlikely to Shift as Litigation Funding Industry Expands
A rising demand for litigation funding from law firms and litigants, coupled with a surge in outside investment into the industry, has fueled the rapid expansion of the U.S. litigation finance market.
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Friday Funding Series: Leveraging Litigation to Obtain Working Capital
In part 2 of our Friday Funding series, New York Investment Manager Jim Batson explains how law firms and claimants can benefit from utilizing litigation funding for working capital.
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Beyond Single Cases: Litigation Funding for Law Firms
This week, Bentham Canada received its 200th request for litigation funding. The vast majority of our inquiries have been for single cases, but there is a growing interest in portfolio funding
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Disclosure of Funding in Class Actions Makes Sense
Earlier this year, the influential U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California grappled with whether civil litigants should be forced to disclose litigation funding in any case.
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Directors' duties and climate change risk
IMF Bentham's Laura Maytom, explains key elements of an opinion published by the Centre for Policy Development, on the obligations of company directors to disclose climate change risks.
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Friday Funding Series: How Litigation Funding Provides Access to Justice
In the first of this 6-part video series by Lawline, Bentham IMF’s Jim Batson participates on a panel discussion with Professor Brad Wendel of Cornell Law School and Evan Fried, a Principal at Greybridge Capital LLC.
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Five Ways Senior Associates Can Use Litigation Funding for Profile Building and Client Service
Litigation funding is quickly emerging as an indispensable tool in every lawyer’s toolkit. Yet, as a former senior Bay Street associate, I know that many people you work with may still be unfamiliar with litigation funding.
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