Litigation Finance Journal Tets Ishikawa - Episode 25 On this week’s Litigation Finance Journal podcast Tets Ishikawa of Acasta Europe and Sparkle Capital gives his thoughts into the litigation funding market. In the podcast, Tets describes how he assisted...

The legal industry is finally embarking on a belated journey of innovation and commercialisation, driven by the growth of law tech and the influx of institutional investor capital, starved of yield, diversification and immature markets. But as law firm IPOs become increasingly common and the legal sector consolidates like the investment banking industry in the 1980s and 1990s, what will the litigation funding market look like in ten years’ time?

Following on from the previous Modern Litigation Trends Conference in 2017, and the Manchester event in June, Acasta Europe and Sparkle Capital will be bringing the Modern Litigation Trends Conference back to Birmingham in September. The conference will include key note speaker Professor Dominic Regan who will be offering his yearly update and expertise in the litigation trends of 2018 heading into 2019.

After the success of the Modern Litigation Trends Conference in 2017, we are pleased to announce Acasta Europe and Sparkle Capital will be bringing Professor Dominic Regan and Rueben Glynn to Manchester on the 13th June to offer their yearly update and expertise in the litigation trends of 2018 heading into 2019. This year they will also be joined by Simon Cliff and His Honour Judge Bird.

The last 18 months have seen significant growth in the use of litigation funding particularly by large corporate organisations concerned about the financial pressures placed on in-house legal budgets in managing risk and future costs. Such organisations are balancing the opportunities that litigation funding can provide against the costs and returns from litigation activities. Litigation funding facilitates all types of cases from single cases to portfolios of claims.