Yesterday’s article, For the World’s Super Rich, Litigation Funding Is the New Black, by Emily Cadman at Bloomberg, highlights the growth of litigation funding in Australia as a means for generating returns that outperform several traditional capital investments.

Key highlights:

• According to Michael Peet, an analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc in Syndey, “Litigation funding is rapidly emerging as an alternative asset class.”
• Litigation finance has outperformed on a multiple of invested capital bases according to Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs.
• More than 60 percent of Australian class actions received funding so far this year, according to law firm King & Wood Mallesons, compared with less than 40 percent four years prior.
• “Past settlements have attracted more funders and their numbers have grown in recent years,” according to Michael Lange, securities litigation counsel at Financial Recovery Technologies.

>> Click here to read the full article on Bloomberg

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• May 2018: Investors Offered Reduced Fees and Costs as Competition Among Australian Law Firms Increases
• March 2018: In Australia, Stakes Are High with Securities Litigation and Antitrust Cases
• October 2017: Australian Class Actions Outpace Other Non-U.S. Jurisdictions
• September 2017: Case Spotlight: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• August 2017: Multiple competing class actions against Bellamy’s Australia Ltd. resolved by the Australian Federal Courts
• July 2017: History of the Australian Class Action

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