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.
Litigation funding can provide claimants and their lawyers with the resources necessary to avoid making adverse decisions that can reduce the value of their claims and prematurely end meritorious cases.
IMF Bentham has made a submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Inquiry into litigation funding and class actions. IMF's response addresses the issues raised on regulation of funders and contingency fees.
IMF Bentham’s General Counsel Jeremy Sambrook discussed the impact of litigation funding on Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) insurance at the AON Advanced Risk Conference 2017 in Melbourne.
On 10 October, IMF Bentham’s Oliver Gayner discussed trends in third-party funding alongside the President of the NSW Court of Appeal, as part of a panel at the International Bar Association's Annual Conference in Sydney.
During the last 16 years, Bentham IMF has been involved in the growth of third-party litigation funding in commercial litigation hot spots around the globe.
ABC's Four Corners aired an investigation into "one of the biggest environmental scandals in Australian history" on Monday 9 October. The investigation highlights the extent of the chemical contamination problems at Oakey, Williamtown and Katherine.
Blowing the whistle on fraudulent conduct doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your financial security. Learn how Bentham IMF’s non-recourse financing can help.
An asset management approach to litigation allows law firm partners to spend less time worrying about how to cover legal expenses and more time doing what they do best: being lawyers.
IMF Bentham has announced the launch of two further investment vehicles, worth a combined A$150 million, to fund future cases and investments in Australia, Asia, Canada and Europe.
Litigation funding and litigation insurance are sometimes compared as ways to help litigants reduce their risk when bringing contingency fee-based claims.
The U.S. Chamber again seeks to amend the FRCP to allow for automatic disclosure of litigation funding agreements. In our response, we explain why their request should be denied by the Rules Committee.
Litigation funding can provide lawyers and law firms with an effective alternative to one of the thorniest business challenges they may face — the billable hour.
Law firm portfolio funding is distinct from litigation funding for an individual claim. With portfolio funding, a law firm has a number of contingency fee or partial contingency fee cases.
Sometimes there is a “tradeoff” to entering an alternative fee arrangements. And sometimes that tradeoff results in a failure to maximize the value of the litigation claims.
