The landscape of litigation funding and collective actions continues to evolve at pace. This update highlights crucial developments from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and beyond, including the certification of ground breaking claims, the intricacies of costs and settlements, and pivotal rulings impacting representative actions and securities litigation. From the first opt-out […]
With the collective actions regime in England and Wales reaching new levels of maturity, the interplay between litigation funding, legal frameworks, and market pressures is shaping the future of competition claims. Below, we summarize the big questions and trends shaping litigation funding today and offer insights into what lies ahead in 2025. The Current Landscape […]
The CAT has taken a robust, pro-funding approach Following PACCAR, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has taken a robust, pro-funding approach in response to a number of opportunistic challenges by defendants to the PCRs’ amended funding arrangements. Although the CAT granted permission to appeal on the funding issues, these challenges should fall away upon […]
Individual investment firms will have many hundreds of cases brought to them each year and so it is essential that any case presented for investment is meticulously prepared to ensure that you or your client maximize the chances of success. Fundamentally, an investor needs the confidence, as far as possible, that it can achieve a […]
In our last blog post, we looked at the different alternative fee structures that law firms can employ and how they operate. Today, we bring to life a typical Damages Based Agreement (DBA) to enable law firms to get a tangible sense of what the returns for them and their client look like in practice. […]
Clients are increasingly demanding more mature billing models and are pushing back against the traditional law firm hourly fee model, demanding that law firms become more competitive in winning their business. Today’s client, especially those with valuable litigation assets, is sophisticated and expects a more commercial approach than the standard hourly rate. After all, corporate […]
In the present-day economic scenario, as more and more companies engage in cross border transactions and investments, there has been a natural and commensurate increase in the number of Investor-State disputes. However, for many investors, pursuing a claim against a state by way of treaty-based Investor State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”) can prove to be financially […]
Global inflation, the economic force that for many years has been banished to the back-pages, may finally get its time back in the limelight, and for good reason. A quick glance at recent statistics shows the combined US budget deficit, plus Fed quantitative easing, currently matches the stimulus we saw following the Second World War, […]
Exton Advisors, a leading financial advisory firm in litigation, is launching a unique range of ‘special situations’ services designed to help companies look at their disputes in an entirely new way. The move is in response to the increasing economic uncertainty brought about by the global pandemic and sees the firm creating a range of […]
