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Meet Burford's Senior Associate Rupert Black as he talks about asset recovery, AI and cryptocurrency.

As the legal technology landscape rapidly evolves alongside ongoing exuberance about all things AI, it’s appropriate to ask how businesses across industries are reassessing their investment strategies in legal data analytics and artificial intelligence.

I’m looking forward to speaking during INSOL Hong Kong on March 17 at the Small Practice Group Meeting, where I will be chairing a panel on litigation funding in the insolvency context. In the lead-up to the event, I’d like to share insights into how insolvency financing is evolving in Asia.

In a significant ruling for the legal finance industry, the Maryland Supreme Court has affirmed the enforceability of contingent claim assignments used to recover Medicare reimbursements.

Family-owned businesses dominate Saudi Arabia’s private sector, but when disputes arise within powerful family groups, they quickly become matters of control, liquidity and endurance rather than legal entitlement.

London remains one of the world’s leading seats for international arbitration. In this video, Christiane Deniger explains why businesses continue to choose London for cross-border disputes—and the role legal finance plays in supporting complex arbitrations.

As we continue to evolve the legal finance industry, we’d like to take the time to explain to the law firms and in-house legal teams that are our clients how our ambitious approach to legal finance can benefit them.

Antitrust matters are among the most complex, costly and high-stakes commercial claims to litigate, making it an area of perennial need for risk-sharing and cost-sharing solutions. Increased activity in the past year suggests that 2020 will continue to see more (and more expensive) antitrust claims.

There have been far-reaching developments in both the growth and regulation of legal finance in Asia Pacific in 2019. The outlook for legal finance remains overwhelmingly positive as the industry matures and becomes increasingly prevalent.

For a corporate litigant, pursuing a claim as an individual plaintiff could mean getting back three to ten times more than it would by remaining a regular class member. Legal finance providers like Burford help CFOs and GCs understand and value their opt-outs so they can make thoughtful decisions about their litigation and uphold their fiduciary duty.

Savvy companies are thinking about litigation as a revenue-generating activity—but many don't know where to start. We share the four steps in-house lawyers can take to develop a programmatic approach to assessing litigation and building effective affirmative recovery programs.

In 2022, creditors with unpaid judgments may continue to face severe resource constraints as well as obstacles in recovering monies owed to them, as recalcitrant debtors continue to evade enforcement. As courts reopen and countries adopt new regulations, asset recovery expertise will play a key role in creditors’ enforcement strategies.