Litigation Funder

On Tuesday 16 February, Expansión jurídico published an article analysing the current situation of Litigation Funding in Spain. Among other issues, it dealt the challenge of adapting the model already consolidated in Anglo-Saxon countries to continental procedural systems, such as the Spanish...

Last 11 February, we had the pleasure of attending one of the first conferences on third-party funding in the Portuguese market, organised by the newspaper Jornal de Negócios in collaboration with CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut and Procurator Litigation Advisors...

Litigation funds. The myth of increasing litigation. One of the main arguments made by detractors of litigation funds is that they would exponentially increase litigation. In recent months, I have attended several forums where this issue has been discussed. The arguments for this statement are simple and, out of context, might have...

Litigation funding is booming. The number of lawsuits and arbitrations financed or acquired by litigation funds is increasing to such an extent that, in some jurisdictions, litigation funding is becoming established as an essential tool for complex judicial or arbitration...

On Friday, May 8, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada released its judgment in "9354-9186 Québec inc. v. Callidus Capital Corp., 2020 SCC 10", opening the doors to the use of alternative sources of litigation funding in Canadian insolvency proceedings. ...