Supporters of efforts to force disclosure of litigation funding arrangements often fail to mention the massive strain such proposals would likely place on an already overburdened court system.
A new study by Tennessee-based litigation funding broker Westfleet Advisors has found that litigants attempting to force disclosure of an opposing party’s litigation financing documents are overwhelmingly unsuccessful.
Chambers and Partners has selected Bentham IMF as one of only two “Band One” litigation funding companies in the United States. We are honored by the feedback that our clients and friends shared with the publication about their experiences working with us.
In an article featured in the April issue of the TMA’s Journal of Corporate Renewal, Bentham IMF's Ken Epstein explains how practitioners and bankruptcy courts are using litigation funding with increasing frequency to help boost creditor recoveries.
Bentham IMF opines on The Litigation Funding Transparency Act of 2018, which would require disclosure of litigation funding arrangements in any federal class action and any federal claim that is aggregated into a federal multi-district litigation (MDL) proceeding.
Litigation funding has evolved into a tool that funders also use to help law firms and companies finance portfolios of litigation, including occasional defense-side matters, to reduce risk and maximize potential recoveries.
For in-house counsel, litigation funding is a powerful corporate finance tool—one that can help them transform legal claims into revenue-generating assets rather than anchors dragging down the bottom line.
Get creative with alternative fee arrangements by using litigation finance for hybrid portfolios of plaintiff and defense side matters. We explain in the final segment of our four-part Case Studies series.
We explore how funding enables law firms to offer their clients a broader array of fee arrangement options while also boosting firm revenues and profits and reducing the risks associated with traditional contingency arrangements.
Bentham IMF's Ken Epstein, Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, went on American Bankruptcy Institute's podcast to discuss some of the effective ways litigation finance can be used in bankruptcy.
In the second of our illustrative four-part series covering hypothetical litigation finance case studies, we explore how Bentham IMF helps companies pursue their meritorious claims—and preserve their solvency—by providing litigation funding and working capital to maintain operations during protracted legal battles
Familiarity with litigation funding has ramped up across the legal and corporate communities in recent years, with lawyers and executives becoming comfortable with abstract concepts of how funding works.
As litigation funding rises to the mainstream, the body of case law signaling judicial acceptance of non-recourse litigation finance continues to grow.
We sat down with Nicholas Kajon to get his take on how the bankruptcy bar has reacted to the use of litigation finance since MagCorp and whether funding should be integrated by lawyers into their practice.
Kenneth Epstein, Investment Manager and Legal Counsel at Bentham IMF, and Eric B. Fisher, Partner at Binder & Schwartz, analyze and explain the benefits of utilizing commercial litigation finance in corporate bankruptcy cases in an article published by the New York Law Journal.
A Pennsylvania federal court confirms what a majority of courts have already held – that funder communications are protected by the work product doctrine.
Andrew Saker, IMF Bentham CEO and Managing Director, recently sat down with The CEO Magazine’s Adrian Flores to discuss IMF Bentham’s business strategy and what it takes to lead Australia’s largest litigation funder.
