The time and effort behind multi-year litigation is at the mercy of the appeals process. Litigation finance is rapidly being engaged to fund various approaches to the appeals process. Furthermore, quality appeals financing is often engaged in the form of
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Video: Aera-IP on Litigation Finance in Europe and Abroad
Patent and trademark litigation is forecast to increase as Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) opens in Q4-22, or Q1-23. Aera-IP is a Nordic consultancy focused on serving clients with various EU IP claims. Aera-IP has published a series of videos…
SEC Finalizes Rules to Require Electronic Filing of Annual Reports to Shareholders and Other Documents
On June 2, 2022, the SEC adopted a Final Rule that requires companies to electronically file a number of documents currently filed on paper. Included in the group of forms that will now be filed electronically are:
- The annual report
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Trustee Quandary: Criminal Activity By A Beneficiary With Or On Trust Property
David F. Johnson had his article entitled “Trustee Quandary: Criminal Activity By A Beneficiary With Or On Trust Property,” published in the Texas Tech Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal in the spring of 2022.…
New York as Capital of International Arbitration Demand
Serving as the center of global finance, New York may soon grow to become the world’s capital of international arbitration proceedings. Today, New York is ranked sixth in the world for arbitration proceedings, tied with Beijing, China. New insights published…
Legal Teams Support CEO and CFO Investment Vehicles
Traditionally, CEOs and CFOs have approached legal expenses from a risk averse perspective. Yet litigation finance is increasingly being understood as a modern instrument of legal innovation and balance sheet protection. Something has got to give.
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LexShares Debates Delaware’s Legal Finance Disclosure Guidelines
Litigation Finance Journal has been covering Delaware’s Chief Judge, who has ordered disclosure of litigation finance agreement details, in a move the court claims helps provide funder transparency (akin to KYC/AML). LexShares has published a debate on the significance of…
Apex Litigation Finance to appoint Stephen Allinson as ‘Head of Legal’
Litigation funding specialists, Apex Litigation Finance have announced the appointment of Stephen Allinson, Solicitor and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, as their new Head of Legal.
Stephen is a credit, debt and insolvency specialist who has worked in the field since 1987.…
Rare Jury Verdict in Securities Fraud Lawsuit
Regular readers of this blog know that class action securities fraud lawsuits almost never go to trial. But “almost never” is not the same as “never.” Every now and then, there is an unusual case that does go to trial.…
CRR related Delegated Regulations
On 14 June 2022, the European Commission adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for assessing the modellability of risk factors under the internal model approach (IMA)…