Building the Firm for Growth

Financing Growth for Ambitious Firms

Our principal expertise is in finance and the law - not just litigation finance, but we have experience across the gamut of financial providers: senior lenders, senior and junior credit, litigation funding, private equity, and the listed market. We work with you to identify the areas of growth for your firm and structure the best finance options, taking into account a holistic view of the firm, the partners’ risk tolerance, and the areas of growth the firm has identified - local and international.

Assessing Funding Options

Our team is constantly engaged with the funders that know and understand legal risk, and we work extensively to educate and develop new funding markets for law firms, where the capital supply is deeper and the financiers can add real value to the development of firms.

Each funding option has a risk and a cost, and we can help communicate these options to all of the stakeholders so that there is firm buy-in for the proposals.

Managing External Control

Each funding option also comes with a degree of external control, responsibility and reporting requirements. Having undertaken this for listed companies we are comfortable working to deliver a robust framework for the identification, assessment, and investment in legal opportunities.

Recent Thinking

Insights
Opening Welcome Speech to LF Dealmakers Europe 2025
Opening Welcome Speech to LF Dealmakers Europe 2025

The funding industry needs to put the interests of society front and centre of its business: as gatekeepers of what gets to proceed, we need to be responsible about what we fund; we have to be honest about our mistakes; but we also need a clear framework from the judiciary that allows the dealmakers in this room to predict the financial impact of their successful decisions as well as their mistakes.

The Tillis Bill: the Wrong Way to Control Litigation Funding
The Tillis Bill: the Wrong Way to Control Litigation Funding

In the US, Senator Tillis has proposed a bill that would tax litigation funding into submission. Our view is that this is the wrong way to go about the debate on whether litigation funding is good or not. The courts are shaping litigation funding, and government should choose to regulate if it wants to - not subscribe to the interests of large corporations that realise the liability they created can now come back to haunt them.

Part I: What is a fair and reasonable return for a funder?
Part I: What is a fair and reasonable return for a funder?

When assessing litigation funding returns, time to return is the most difficult factor to assess. There is a wide range of returns; and returns can go long, but it is reasonable to expect that it will take an average of 3.7 years for cash to do a round trip - but that may mean it takes 7 years from start to finish.