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Remembering Steve Susman: US CIO Allison Chock reflects on his contribution to our US Advisory Panel as well as his legacy in the legal profession.

Corporate insurance policyholders around the globe are battling their insurers over millions of dollars in unpaid business closure insurance claims. We discuss why litigation finance is the solution to help these companies.

Andrew Saker, CEO of Omni Bridgeway, welcomed the opportunity to appear before the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on 13 July 2020. The Joint Committee is inquiring into litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry.

Litigation and arbitration claims can be highly valuable assets of insolvent estates. Omni Bridgeway’s investment manager and insolvency specialist, Heather Collins, answers critical questions about how dispute finance can assist insolvency-related claims.

Andrew Saker, CEO of Omni Bridgeway, explains how corporate wrongdoing is the real reason D&O premiums are rising in Australia.

Dispute finance can help both operating companies and non-practicing entities assess and manage the legal risks associated with litigation.

Omni Bridgeway has welcomed the Parliamentary inquiry into litigation funding and class actions that is currently underway in Australia. It provides an opportunity to improve the Australian class action system. However, opponents of litigation funding and class actions are using the inquiry to spread misinformation, in particular about returns generated by funders on successful actions. We set out some facts.

VCs and startups often view litigation as a cost that dilutes a company’s capital, but by working with a funder like Omni Bridgeway, companies can develop a strategy to turn their meritorious legal claims into profitable assets.

Omni Bridgeway has received recognition as a leading funder and asset tracing and recovery specialist from Chambers and Partners.

Congratulations to our many team members recognized on Lawdragon’s inaugural 2020 Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance guide.

What is dispute funding and how can your company benefit? Time to put this advantageous tool on your company’s radar.

In this podcast, Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager and arbitration specialist, Nathan Landis, and Nick Gallus, Special Counsel with law firm Lipman Karas, discuss a range of issues relating to investment treaties between states and other entities, including the role of investment treaty arbitration to resolve any disputes that arise.

Every good law student, and indeed litigation funder, knows that it is a maxim of English law that if there is a conflict between the common law and equity, equity will prevail. The judicial approach to litigation funding has largely been shaped by the motivations of those parties who either have funded cases or have been the beneficiaries of such funding.

The Parliamentary inquiry into litigation funding and class actions announced earlier this year seeks to ensure fair and equitable outcomes for claimants and group members. As a pioneer of the industry and largest funder in Australia, Omni Bridgeway fully supports these aims. Part of our business is to provide finance and access to justice to claimants and group members in class actions who lack the resources to pursue complex and costly disputes.

A pair of recent legal developments involving the United Arab Emirates should significantly enhance the ability of parties seeking to enforce judgments from this important Middle Eastern business hub.

Omni Bridgeway is delighted to welcome highly respected international arbitrator, Benjamin Hughes, to its Investment Committees.

The claimants in the ‘Alucobond’ cladding class action had a significant victory in court last week. The claimants, which include the bodies corporate of residential apartment buildings plus local councils, are bringing the product liability class action against the manufacturers of ‘Alucobond’ PE core cladding products, being the German company, 3A Composites GmbH and the Australian company, Halifax Vogel Group Pty Ltd. The action has been brought in the Federal Court of Australia under consumer protection laws.

Breaking news: The sun has set on champerty in Minnesota as the state’s Supreme Court abolishes the age-old doctrine.

Omni Bridgeway is funding a talented interdisciplinary artist and her design studio to gain a declaration of copyright ownership in Singapore in respect of high quality photographs they produced of a number of luxury hotels and, through proceedings in the US, seek damages for their extensive infringement on a variety of third party commercial websites over the last decade.

Our client, an infrastructure construction company, concluded an agreement with an African state (via its Ministry for Works) to rehabilitate a roadway between two major cities.