Samuel Arksey
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Samuel Arksey is an accomplished barrister and Projects & Strategy Director at Lexolent, the world’s first globally coordinated origination network and marketplace for legal finance professionals. His specialities include legal finance, legal expertise, and strategic leadership, and he has a particular interest in the evolution of the legal finance industry and driving innovation across the sector.
Prior to his work at Lexolent, Samuel built a successful practice at the independent Bar of England and Wales, focusing on children and family law. Before this, Samuel spent five years in the British Army as an Ammunition Technician, specializing in explosives, bomb disposal, and counter-terrorism operations across international deployments.
Articles
Strategic Withdrawals and the Fragility of Justice: An Analysis of Litigation Funder Exits
By Samuel Arksey Third-party litigation funding (‘TPLF’) is now a multibillion-dollar asset class with a material presence in mass torts, class actions, and complex commercial arbitration across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Continental Europe. Once largely confined to insolvency practitioners, it has expanded to provide capital for claims that would not otherwise be brought. That expansion ...
After PACCAR: Who Fills the Vacuum?
By Samuel Arksey On 26 July 2023, the UK Supreme Court handed down its ruling in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others [2023] UKSC 28. The decision turned on a statutory definition that most practitioners had never considered. The consequences were immediate and, for domestic funders, severe. The court held that ...
