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London remains a leading global hub for commercial disputes, driven by the strength of English law and its appeal to international litigants. In this webcast, experts from Burford Capital, Portland Communications and Clifford Chance discuss how London can stay competitive amid rising global alternatives by adapting to evolving client needs around cost, speed and enforceability.

In this video, Craig Arnott and Charlie Rooke reflect on ten years of the UK’s opt-out collective actions regime, highlighting the central role of legal finance in enabling complex competition claims and delivering effective redress.

Given growing interest in legal finance in India, Quentin Pak asked a group of international lawyers from leading Indian law firms to address the legal framework regulating funding, recent monetization activity and predictions for the future of legal finance in the region.

Burford pioneered portfolio financing, making the first publicly announced law firm portfolio arrangement in 2011. Since then, appetite for portfolio financing solutions has dramatically increased.

Experts and non-experts alike predicted a wave of bankruptcies and insolvencies following the business disruption caused by Covid-19 in 2021. However, new filings globally were much lower than expected following historic levels of government support and easy access to cheap liquidity in the capital markets. Despite this, we expect new commercial filings to pick back up as government support around the world abates.

In April 2021, Andrew Cohen directed questions concerning the most salient industry forces and the most high-value disputes in the health care sector to a respected group of law firm leaders. Download the Quarterly to learn more.

The disruption of 2020 presented one of the biggest and most important challenges to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Learn how the pandemic has led to a reevaluation of investment in R&D, an increased interest in parallel therapies and an evolution in how companies manage associated legal risks.

In a panel with Burford CFO Jim Kilman, finance professionals share how they think about litigation assets and affirmative recovery programs.

In a roundtable moderated by Connor Murphy, four experts discuss the insolvency and restructuring trends they anticipate as the government support that helped keep the global economy in balance following the Covid-19 crisis is withdrawn.

Asset managers face the potential for securities litigation on a scale not seen since the years following the 2008 financial crisis. Having a strategic litigation plan and access to the right tools will help asset managers maximize recoveries for their investors while minimizing burdens on in-house counsel and investment personnel.

In August 2022, Michael Redman, Salina Brindle and Emily Tillett directed questions concerning cryptocurrency insolvency trends to a group of respected experts in the space.