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By leveraging legal finance, CPG companies mitigate risks associated with litigation and access a significant source of capital.

The latest report on Burford's business and trends in 2024 draws on 15 years of insights from financing leading businesses and law firms, illustrates how Fortune 500s are unlocking value and reducing risk in their legal departments and shows how law firms can build and sustain high value practice areas to fuel growth. Read the 2024 Legal Finance Outlook to learn more.

Burford’s Chief Marketing Officer Liz Bigham spoke with Chief Executive Officer Christopher Bogart about Burford's experience in the legal finance sector over the last 15 years and the future of the industry. Watch to learn more.

With the advent of legal finance, businesses can now finance their legal departments—and that’s a good thing, as a former CFO of a top 25 US financial holding company explained at the 2024 ILFA Conference.

The energy sector is particularly exposed to shifts in global politics and economics, high infrastructure costs and fluctuations in supply and demand. The sector faces complex issues such as dry wells, time-consuming extraction and distribution activities and complicated contractual arrangements involving multiple partners, including governments. As a result, the energy industry is a natural hotbed for disputes.  

Burford’s latest research reveals how finance and legal leaders at healthcare companies are managing their legal assets.

Recent research featuring senior legal leaders in the mining indstry addresses the key dispute trends in the sector. Learn more about the finding below.

The Netherlands has over recent years become one of the most active European markets for legal finance providers. Financiers have flocked towards Dutch collective actions—claims for damages under the Resolution of Mass Damages in Collective Action (WAMCA)—but the Dutch market is an attractive one to legal finance providers more generally, as explored below.

Meet Burford's CFO Jordan Licht as he talks about what CFOs need to know about legal finance and the top five things he brought with him from Dallas.

The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is fundamental to the drive to decarbonize the global economy amidst the impacts of climate change. However, this shift to renewable technologies also brings a higher risk of disputes across various business activities—disputes that are likely to be many and varied given the magnitude of the infrastructure and technology involved. 

Burford’s Chief Marketing Officer Liz Bigham spoke with Charles Griffin, Vice President, about disputes in the US healthcare sector in this insights video. An edited transcript can be found below.

Burford’s Chief Marketing Officer Liz Bigham spoke with Philipp Leibfried, Head of Europe, about how European companies are using legal finance to solve business problems. An edited transcript can be found below.