Stonward shares five predictions for litigation funding in 2022, including an increase in investments in cases that benefit the public, such as ESG and antitrust-related litigation. Read more.
Stonward shares five predictions for litigation funding in 2022, including an increase in investments in cases that benefit the public, such as ESG and antitrust-related litigation. Read more.
The second International Congress on Litigation Funding, organised by Stonward and the Peruvian Institute of Arbitration, highlighted some ideas: litigation funding does not generate frivolous claims, and the legislation being proposed by bodies such as the EU is prone to over-regulation. The experts who participated in the talk –specialists in third-party funding and/or specialised in the world of arbitration who have worked directly with funding– were: Antonio Bravo of Eversheds Sutherland in Spain; Daniel Rodríguez of CMS Rodríguez-Azuero in Colombia; Guido Demarco of Stonward; Heitor Castro of LexFinance in Brazil; and Luis Dates of Baker McKenzie’s Argentina office.
Max Odenthal of Gordian Special Assets predicts that for the Russian government, as well as international Russian businesses and their ultimate beneficial owners, sanctions likely mark just the beginning of years of multi-billion-dollar legal claims and investigations by foreign governmental and private parties.
Andrew Mckie of Clerksroom examines the issues that law firms may likely have when they use credit agreements for litigation funding with clients, specifically when claims run on new areas of litigation such as data breach and various types of misselling.
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