This billion-dollar case against Argentina's YPF wouldn’t exist without litigation funding. Is that a good thing?

Alison Frankel of Reuters opines on the role of litigation funding in the billion-dollar case against Argentina's YPF - a dispute that has taken place in the public docket - with Argentina repeatedly asserting that Burford bought the right to prosecute the claims, and Burford criticising this as a “persistent mischaracterization,” saying that it acquired only the right to finance the case, not the claims themselves.

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