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The metals and mining industry has entered an unprecedented period of economic uncertainty. Rocketing costs for exploration and production have impacted profit margins and left investors reluctant to engage with new mining projects. Learn how legal finance can enable mining companies and commodities traders rethink their allocation of legal resources (both time and money) and reevaluate their appetite for risk.

Recent case studies illustrate some of the ways in which Burford has helped companies generate value from what would otherwise be illiquid assets or a drain on corporate budgets.

It is no secret that economic strain tends to spur IP litigation: When cash is scarce, companies are incentivized to extract value from dormant IP assets. With many companies likely to put their IP assets to work in 2021, it should come as good news that regulatory and judicial developments around the world are creating an IP environment that is friendlier to patent holders.

Christopher Bogart introduces the most recent issue of the Burford Quarterly and highlights recent developments in the legal finance industry.

In periods of economic instability, law firms must adapt.

When prospective legal finance users come to Burford, they frequently ask how we value claims and calculate probable damages for the cases we finance.

Burford CEO and co-founder Christopher P. Bogart assesses the post-Covid legal finance landscape and finds indicators of continued growth and transformation in litigation and the business of law.

As the use of legal finance has reached an all-time high for both law firms and in-house legal departments, related case law has reflected, and bolstered, its growing acceptance in several recent decisions.

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.