NEW
YORK, Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford
Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm
focused on law, today releases its latest Burford Quarterly,
a journal of legal finance that explores top trends at the nexus of
law and finance.
This Burford Quarterly examines the innovative ways
in which businesses and law firms are reimagining their financial
strategies around commercial disputes. Examples of this include law
firms using creative billing structures as alternatives to hourly
fees; companies choosing to opt out of litigation to maximize and
accelerate recoveries; or businesses monetizing IP assets, allowing
for continued investment in other vital areas of the business.
Articles in the Burford Quarterly No.1 2025
include:
- The innovation engine: Legal finance for forward-thinking
law firms
As law firms launch into 2025, a year that
promises continued disruption and opportunity, innovation is not a
choice—it's an imperative. Forward-thinking firms are reimagining
their financial strategies, moving beyond traditional models to
embrace legal finance as a critical tool for transformation. In
this article, Travis Lenkner and
Emily Slater explore innovative ways
legal finance is helping firms solve pressing challenges and
accelerate growth.
- Healthcare antitrust opt-outs: Improving liquidity
by monetizing valuable legal claims
An increasing
number of healthcare businesses are recognizing the value that
legal finance provides in helping to mitigate the financial strain
of high-cost litigation and expedite recoveries in high-stakes
litigation. Ahead of a March 2025
opt-out deadline for claimants in the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
antitrust class actions, Charles
Griffin summarizes insights from a recent webcast in which
experts from Burford and Paul
Hastings presented factors hospital networks and providers
should consider in weighing their options.
- Legal finance and life sciences: Unlocking IP potential
in pharma, biotech and medical devices
Innovation in
Europe's life sciences and
pharmaceutical sectors is vital, but long R&D cycles and short
profit windows pose challenges. Joshua
Harris explains how legal finance helps companies protect
and monetize IP assets, enabling continued investment in
life-saving technologies.
- International arbitration in London: Next-Gen leaders'
perspective
Geoff
Nicholas, Christiane Deniger
and James MacKinnon lead a Burford
roundtable with London-based
arbitration lawyers. Partners from A&O Shearman, Debevoise
& Plimpton, Bryan Cave Leighton
Paisner and Freshfields share their insights on key trends
and challenges shaping international arbitration, including the use
of technology and AI and arbitral efficiency.
Aviva Will, President of
Burford Capital, says: "While the legal industry may be slow to
evolve, legal finance is a powerful tool to drive innovation in the
business of law. This issue of the Burford Quarterly
highlights key trends in commercial litigation and arbitration in
2025 and shows how litigation funding continues to shape the legal
industry. By providing capital and mitigating risk, funding removes
barriers for businesses and facilitates growth, and the latest
Quarterly brings insights, analysis and real-world examples
of tools to help business executives, GCs, CLOs and law firm
attorneys recognize and harness the full potential of finance for
law."
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset
management firm focused on law. Its businesses
include litigation finance and risk
management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal
finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange
(LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the
world from its offices in New
York, London, Chicago, Washington,
DC, Singapore,
Dubai and
Hong Kong.
For more information, please
visit www.burfordcapital.com.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or
the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other
securities of Burford.
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