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Funding and Lobbying – Unhappy Bedfellows? Litigation Funding in the UK

By Ben Knowles For those of us with more than a passing interest in litigation funding, we will all have noticed that barely an hour goes by without a new article adding to the pool of knowledge. Some of that material is highly technical; some is more news based; but in the last few months, particularly in the UK, we have seen more that is in the nature of ‘lobbying’ ...
Private Credit and the Litigation Funder: Promise, Peril, and the Path Between

Private Credit and the Litigation Funder: Promise, Peril, and the Path Between

By Nick Rowles-Davies This article grew out of a lively panel at Dubai Arbitration Week 2025, where I discussed how the surge of private credit is reshaping the litigation funding market. It distils the themes that surfaced in that conversation such as the promise of speed and scale, the discipline (and demands) of lender covenants, the changing role of insurance, and the evolving place of the traditional limited partner/general partner ...