Burford Capital
How Burford Capital turned litigation into an asset class by funding lawsuits upfront and collecting a share of the winnings.
Litigation takes money. A company wins a legal claim but cannot afford the courtroom fight. Lawyers demand five to twenty million dollars upfront. The case dies not on legal merit but on cash flow. Burford Capital solved this problem. Burford funds the entire lawsuit. They pay all legal costs upfront — sometimes millions, sometimes tens of millions. The company pays nothing. If the case wins, Burford takes thirty to forty percent of recovery. If it loses, Burford eats the cost. The company gets to litigate without risk. The real advantage is portfolio scale. A single case is binary — it wins or loses. But Burford has committed eleven point seven billion dollars across over five hundred cases.
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