Litigation and Legal Assets Funding
Macfarlanes has a leading practice in the litigation and legal assets sector and has been closely involved in the development of the market over the past fifteen years. The team has a reputation for advising on complex transactions across a sector which is now fundamental to dispute resolution and the legal market more broadly.
The rapid evolution of recent years shows no sign of slowing, and we work with clients at the cutting edge of a fast growing and sophisticated asset class. Our clients are specialists in the field.and we are able to use our intimate knowledge of the legal sector to structure transactions to fit almost any circumstance.
We believe our experience to be unrivalled, and our expertise includes advising on the financing of:
- single case litigation;
- case portfolios;
- claims in the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) and other class actions;
- consumer claim warehousing;
- claims aggregators;
- asset tracing and enforcement;
- insolvencies;
- assignments of judgments or awards;
- defence funding;
- law firm start-ups;
- law firm liquidity requirements;
- law firm insolvency; and
- bespoke secured funding packages.
Our dedicated team also advises on the establishment of litigation funding platforms, the raising of capital, the tax treatment applicable to the asset class, and the navigation of disputes arising from funding arrangements.
Whilst the core of our practice is focused (directly or indirectly) on the UK, we also have extensive experience of transactions relating to the financing of litigation and legal assets in multiple jurisdictions within the United States of America, and in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the UAE and Hong Kong.
