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Listed firm owner warns of £4m hit after litigation funder losses

RBC Holdings, the listed owner of law firm Rosenblatt, is braced for a £4m hit after its litigation finance business LionFish suffered damaging losses in two cases and the board concluded that any further appeals are no longer viable.

Hunting elephants: Can big data transform litigation funding?

Herbert Smith Freehills investorschronicle.co.uk LionFish Mishcon de Reya Solomonic

Tets Ishikawa of LionFish, Edward Bird of Solomonic, Nick West of Mishcon de Reya and Alex Oddy of Herbert Smith Freehills describe how big data is shaking up the litigation funding sector, and why law firms and funders with a dearth of data are at risk of falling prey to their competitors.

Voss report is unsatisfyingly hollow and narrow

lawgazette.co.uk LionFish

Tets Ishikawa of LionFish criticises the Voss report as "unsatisfyingly hollow and narrow", pointing out that the reference to funders’ returns being up to 300% or even 3000% is heavily misguided, the report fails to define the claimant group it is seeking to protect, and that it fundamentally misses the real crux of the issue, which is that making losing defendants pay the cost of funding is a far more obvious way to address the issues identified in the report.

An unfair tax on accessing justice

lawgazette.co.uk LionFish

Tets Ishikawa of LionFish argues that the time has now come to revisit the recoverability of uplifts, premiums and funding costs, using several recent cases and an analogy involving a schoolyard bully to make his point.

Can law firms reinvent litigation funding?

investorschronicle.co.uk LionFish

A growing body of solicitors’ firms are setting up third-party funding arms. When law firms and funders get too chummy, however, conflicts can arise, with the interests of law firms and funders often very different, according to Tets Ishikawa of LionFish.

Disclosing litigation funding arrangements: a debate worth having

disputeresolutionblog.practicallaw.com LionFish

Tets Ishikawa of LionFish Litigation Finance weighs in on the litigation funding disclosure debate, suggesting that with courts and tribunals increasingly showing they are not being swayed by the potential abuse of the disclosure process by defendants, perhaps it is an opportunity for the litigation funding industry to be proactive and initiate a standard disclosure template for courts and tribunals globally to address this battleground once and for all.

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LionFish

Listed firm owner warns of £4m hit after litigation funder losses

Hunting elephants: Can big data transform litigation funding?

Voss report is unsatisfyingly hollow and narrow

An unfair tax on accessing justice

Can law firms reinvent litigation funding?

Disclosing litigation funding arrangements: a debate worth having

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