Did you see the 2004 film “Head in the Clouds“? I did not! But if you had you would know that the protagonists face unpalatable choices in 1930s Europe. In fact I had never heard of it until told about it by a lunch companion last week who raved about it. Whether it is any… Read More: Burying our heads in the clouds »
Continuing last month’s seasonal theme (Mirror, mirror on the wall 19th November), I was delighted to see that there is a website dedicated to all things panto called www.its-behind-you.com Fairy godmothers and magic lamps do not feature much, I suspect, in the setting up of vehicles to provide outside funding to litigants who cannot afford to fund… Read More: It’s behind you »
Less than half the funds sought by putative litigation funder Burford Capital were subscribed last month as the London market’s second biggest listing of the year flopped. Only £80 million was provided by investors in the IPO on the AIM market. Burford had sought £200 million. The company needed the money to fund commercial disputes… Read More: Funder bolt and lightning »
By way of a postscript to the preceding post ‘Too early to say‘, I have noticed at least one upturn in activity. The market for Third Party Litigation Funding is increasingly in the news, whether because of cases like Stone & Rolls v Moore Stephens in the House of Lords in July or probably because there… Read More: Third party funding and the credit crunch »