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At the 2024 ILFA Conference in New York, CFOs and GCs weigh in on why businesses increasingly use legal finance.

How are companies capitalizing on their intellectual property in 2025?

In this video, James MacKinnon and Geoff Nicholas explain why London remains the leading global forum for complex disputes and how legal finance supports high-stakes litigation.

Spain is rapidly becoming a key growth market for legal finance in Europe. In this video, Teresa Gutiérrez Chacón shares why Spain’s legal environment is uniquely supportive of funded claims—and how Burford supports Spanish firms and businesses in pursuing complex disputes.

In this video, Travis Lenkner and Patrick Savage explain how Burford provides patient equity capital to help law firms invest in technology, talent, expansion and M&A, while preserving independence, culture and long-term strategy.

Beyond capital, legal finance offers specialized expertise for plaintiff-side matters, offering a partnership solution to companies.

As predicted, the fallout of the Covid pandemic in the US has included a large wave of insurance coverage litigation, directed primarily at the issue of whether the business interruption coverage included in commercial insurance policies extends to the trillions of dollars in losses flowing from the virus.

Burford Capital recently made history: By taking a minority ownership stake in a boutique UK law firm, PCB Litigation, in July 2020, we became the first legal financier to provide capital in exchange for law firm equity.

Judges at a recent ILFA conference in New York recognize that mandatory disclosure of legal finance is unnecessary and would hinder the efficiency of businesses pursuing their claims.