Litigation and Legal Assets Funding

Our market-leading team supports litigation funders and funded parties across the full range of litigation and legal assets transactions. We’ve played an active role in shaping this market for more than 15 years, advising on many first-of-their-kind complex transactions and structures that are now fundamental to the domestic and international dispute resolution and legal assets funding landscape. 

Our finance, tax, private funds and dispute resolution specialists are used to delivering coordinated advice across the full lifecycle of litigation and legal assets financing matters. We structure and deliver complex and innovative transactions for our clients, whether that’s establishing a litigation funding platform, raising capital, deploying capital, analysing the tax treatment of legal assets or navigating disputes arising from funding arrangements. 

We regularly advise on a range of funding matters, including:

• single-case litigation funding;
• portfolio funding;
• funding class actions in the competition appeals tribunal and beyond;
• funding consumer claims;
• asset tracing and enforcement;
• insolvencies;
• assignment or monetisation of judgements or awards;
• defence funding; and
• law firm financing (including start-ups, liquidity needs, portfolio funding and bespoke secured funding packages). 

Funder work highlights including advising:

• a series of specialist funders in relation to multiple funded claims in the Competition Appeals Tribunal;
• a leading litigation funder in relation to the financing of certain claims in administration;
• a leading litigation funder in relation to the establishment and capitalisation of a new funding platform;
• a specialist funder in relation to the insolvency of a law firm;
• a specialist funder in relation to the funding of a synthetic portfolio of claims; and
• a leading litigation funder in relation to financing a portfolio of international litigation and the monetisation of EU judgments.

Funded work highlights including advising:

• a leading law firm in relation to its liquidity requirements; and
• a group of foreign individuals in relation to claims in English commercial court proceedings against foreign defendants.