Keir Baker and Chris Warren-Smith of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius analyse a landmark representative actions directive that they predict will reshape the landscape for consumer class actions across the EU. Read more.
Keir Baker and Chris Warren-Smith of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius analyse a landmark representative actions directive that they predict will reshape the landscape for consumer class actions across the EU. Read more.
A court filing has revealed that a GLS Capital affiliate and Law Finance Group are funding a patent infringement suit brought by Microspherix against Nexplanon, a contraceptive implant whose US sales were nearly 10% of Merck & Co. spinoff Organon & Co.’s 2022 revenue.
Sysco has sued affiliates of Burford for allegedly meddling in the food distributor’s efforts to settle several major antitrust cases in which it’s a plaintiff, while Burford argues that Sysco has breached the funding agreement by assigning some of the claims, giving Burford the right to veto the settlements.
The owner of PatentVest, an investment-bank backed patent shop turned law firm, has defended the firm’s alternative business structure, arguing that “a law firm owned by a venture capital group that is truly interested in driving innovation and bringing new technologies to the market is better than a firm owned solely by litigation funders”.
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