On 12 May 2016, Robert Rothkopf of Balance Legal Capital will be speaking at the JLT Commercial Litigation Conference, as a member of the panel for the third party funding discussion 'The present, the future and everything in between'.

This is the first of a three-part series in which Robert Rothkopf extracts important lessons for litigators and consumers of legal advice from the recent book “Superforecasting – The Art & Science of Prediction”. Part 1 focuses on the need for lawyers to embrace the use of percentage probabilities when considering the merits of a case, not only to reduce the scope for confusion but also to...

Oliver Hayes of Balance Legal Capital comments on recent transfers to the High Court’s Financial List, and considers whether transfer applications could be used as a litigation tactic.

How can litigation finance benefit growth companies? Simon Burnett draws on lessons from a recent case in which Balance Legal Capital supported a growth-stage content aggregation business in the UK in an IP dispute with a Silicon Valley social media company, to explain how litigation funding works and the potential benefits of this type of finance for growth companies.

On Friday 4 March 2016, Balance Legal Capital attended London Business School’s Asset Management Conference at Gibson Hall in London. Panellists at the event including the former Governor of the Bank of England Lord Mervyn King, addressed the topic of how asset managers and investors are ‘navigating a low return world’.

In this short note, Kylie Ansbro of Balance Legal Capital summarises the key benefits of litigation finance.