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Litigation Funders Get the Go-Ahead from the Courts

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6] Commercial funding deals provide capital for companies to offset their litigation risk or to supplement their operating budget, permitting them to continue operations while concurrently pursuing a legal claim. [7] 4] Litigation funding can generally be categorized into two types: consumer and commercial. [5] 10] See id. at 12-14. [11]

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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10] According to one of the biggest litigation funders, publicly traded Burford Capital—recently featured on 60 Minutes [11] —there was a 237% increase in overall litigation funding in the US between 2012 and 2018, a trend that, by all accounts, continues unabated. [12] 2] Virtually nonexistent in the patent space in the U.S.