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Funding growth

12 May 2017
Issue: 7745 / Categories: Legal News
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Litigation funding will continue to see ‘high levels of growth’ not only geographically but in terms of fund raising investment levels and case types, according to Neil Purslow, co-founder of Therium Capital Management. Writing in NLJ this week, he predicts a growth of litigation funding in the financial services, energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as lot of work in group claims and investor state arbitrations. Research by law firm RPC found a 25% increase in litigation funding in the UK in 2016.

Issue: 7745 / Categories: Legal News
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