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Few private or public legal data platforms have the comprehensive legal data sets that a legal finance provider can amass. Legal finance firms combine their data analytics approach and litigation prowess to add value to law firms and companies in several ways.

As we write this introduction to the latest Burford Quarterly in June 2020, there is still much that remains uncertain about the world and the economy in which we now live and work.

Legal finance equips firms to build and expand contingency practices to meet client demand, solve the partner compensation problem, weather the cost and risk of such an undertaking and reap the financial rewards upon resolution of the matters in a portfolio.

In the last decade, requests for provisional measures in international arbitrations have increased significantly, roughly on par with the number of cases filed. Among these interim measures, security for costs applications have been the most frequently sought, comprising 20% of all provisional measure decisions.

In this article, we discuss how monetizing and divesting non-crucial patents can provide companies with new revenue. Legal finance is key to patent monetization.

CFOs are increasingly working to innovate the legal department and find new ways to add value to the business.

Legal finance provides an important means for patent owners to access the courts and enforce their intellectual property rights.

Below, we offer guidance on legal budgeting for law firm and in-house lawyers alike, drawn from our extensive experience helping clients achieve successful litigation outcomes.

As bankruptcy filings increase, there is more awareness of legal finance as a potential tool.

In August 2023, Evan Meyerson, a Director at Burford Capital, posed questions about building risk-based litigation practices to a panel of leading law firm lawyers at four global law firms. Their answers are gathered below.

To mark the start of 2024—a year when Burford will celebrate our 15th anniversary—we share the key trends that we’re talking about with clients at leading companies and law firms around the world.

More and more, companies with significant intellectual property have been exploring corporate divestitures as vehicles for monetizing their patent portfolios. If a company does not have the business flexibility or internal expertise to directly monetize its IP, financed divestiture can offer a bespoke solution to outsourced monetization. For companies seeking to extract value from their IP, it’s imperative that they understand the sophistication of financial structures currently available to them. In all likelihood, they’re sitting on millions—legal finance can help them access it.