Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov is pleading with the EU to return a seized £225m superyacht that Burford and Akhmedov’s ex-wife spent years and millions of pounds pursuing as part of Britain’s biggest divorce settlement.
Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov is pleading with the EU to return a seized £225m superyacht that Burford and Akhmedov’s ex-wife spent years and millions of pounds pursuing as part of Britain’s biggest divorce settlement.
Burford has appointed Berenberg as Joint Corporate Broker, to serve alongside Burford‘s Nominated Adviser and Joint Brokers Numis Securities Limited and Jefferies International Limited. Read more.
Matt Lee of Burford explains how the new ACICA Arbitration rules impact legal finance in Australia, including a rule that clients can now use funding to remove not only the downside cost of legal fees, expenses and adverse costs, but also third-party funding costs that would otherwise be paid out of any award in a successful case.
Burford has released new independent research based on a survey of 300 GCs and heads of litigation in the US and UK that demonstrates the transformative way that GCs view legal department impact, including the shift away from thinking about legal departments as cost centers, and instead viewing them as potential liquidity generators.
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