As a part of a series of 30 interviews with senior in-house counsel and other leading figures from across the global disputes industry Burford CEO Christopher Bogart speaks to HFW on funding in global disputes.
Key takeaways
- Legal finance continues to grow and evolve to be just another form of specialty corporate finance
- Companies are increasingly looking at the underlying asset value of the pending claims as a financing opportunity, instead of 10 years ago when companies thought of legal finance as budget tool
- Covid-19 will have a substantive impact on litigation when you combine direct pandemic disputes, insolvencies and inevitably litigation arising out of those insolvencies