Sentences with phrase «funding at arbitration»

Harbour provided extensive input when Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai considered legislation around third party funding and the team is continuously invited to talk about funding at arbitration forums and litigation conferences globally.

Not exact matches

In my next column, I will look at these and other issues the Tribunal may have to consider in exercising its jurisdiction over the arbitration procedure and the involvement of a third party funder.

In my previous column, I looked at the growth of third party litigation (and arbitration) funding in Canada and discussed whether an arbitration Tribunal has any jurisdiction to control the involvement of funders.

The arbitrator was highly critical of the conduct of the Respondent in the arbitration, stating that the Claimant was at a clear financial disadvantage and was faced with no alternative but to seek third party funding because the Respondent:

After the launch of our portfolio funding product with law firms at the end of 2014, we saw significant demand in the offering from lawyers interested in working on a partial contingent basis and we rolled this out across a number of leading firms with particular interest from the arbitration community.

Mark Hartigan, Client Services Director at Just Costs Solicitors, said: «Cost management of disputes following Jackson's reforms has become an increasing focus for parties in arbitration and litigation situations, both funded and unfunded.

Elly's work at Boies Schiller focused on major high - stakes disputes, including representing Apple in its global antitrust litigation against Qualcomm; Midtown Acquisitions LP, a Davidson Kempner affiliate, in its multi-jurisdictional judgment enforcement against Essar Global Fund Limited; A1 noteholders in their successful High Court litigation and settlement against the Canary Wharf Group; a major hedge fund in relation to complex High Court proceedings against Terra Firma Capital Partners» Four Seasons Healthcare Groups; and several significant commercial and investor - state arbitratiFund Limited; A1 noteholders in their successful High Court litigation and settlement against the Canary Wharf Group; a major hedge fund in relation to complex High Court proceedings against Terra Firma Capital Partners» Four Seasons Healthcare Groups; and several significant commercial and investor - state arbitratifund in relation to complex High Court proceedings against Terra Firma Capital Partners» Four Seasons Healthcare Groups; and several significant commercial and investor - state arbitrations.

2015 saw the total value of claims funded by Therium break the $ 5 billion mark with litigation and arbitration cases in the UK, Europe, Asia - Pacific and in the Americas, including high profile cases such as the shareholder group action against Lloyds Banking Group over the acquisition of HBOS at the peak of the financial crisis.

Indeed, advisers ought to be talking to their clients about funding both in the context of litigation and arbitration at an early stage».

At this stage such categories include funding international arbitration proceedings and related court or mediation proceedings.

Robert Rothkopf speaks about allocation of third party funding costs in international arbitration at ICC YAF Conference in Zurich on 30 June 2017.

As a litigation funding firm, we invest in commercial disputes brought by businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and shareholders, whether individually or seeking funding for class actions, at all stages of the litigation or arbitration process.

Calunius partner Christian Stuerwald and fellow speakers will discuss at a seminar organized by the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA) the use of and room for growth for dispute funding in Sweden and the Nordics; these countries have a business environment that creates relatively large disputes by the numbers and a sound and transparent legal culture with reliable courts and commercial arbitration.

At present, Singapore law generally prohibits third party funding in litigation or arbitration.

Litigation finance or litigation funding is the provision of capital to a claimholder in exchange for a portion of the proceeds in a litigation or arbitration where recourse is limited to the proceeds of the litigation or arbitration at issue.

Previous Native Title Reports have commented on the Commonwealth's respondent funding scheme, 81 noting its effect in hardening the positions of those who already have their interests protected in any event, 82 and its seeming encouragement of litigation over negotiation.83 During the consultations, an NTRB in Queensland expressed frustration at the inequality created when mining and other companies are financed directly by the Attorney - General, putting NTRBs (and therefore the traditional owners they represent), with limited funding as described above, at a disadvantage when appearing in arbitration hearings about the doing of future acts.

An Arizona trial court has considered whether a REALTOR ® association has the power to discipline a member who was the nonprevailing party at an arbitration who then refused to escrow the funds while appealing the decision, as required by the Association's bylaws.