A guide to litigation funding products

Companies typically use litigation funding to move cost and risk off balance sheets, free up capital for other business purposes, and improve risk management whilst providing budgetary certainty.

Litigation funding is where a company leverages the value of commercial litigation or arbitration to obtain capital from a third party to either: finance the litigation or for other business purposes. Litigation funding is non-recourse – if the case loses the claimant owes nothing.

There are a number of products, each of which are designed to solve different problems.