Celebrating 15 Years As The Leader In Legal Finance

We help businesses and law firms use legal finance to transform how they approach commercial disputes.

Burford is the institutional quality finance firm focused on law. Publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with a $7 billion portfolio, we have the capacity and experience to address virtually any litigation finance need.

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Burford interviewed more than 40 senior lawyers at leading law firms on how the legal finance industry has evolved over the last 15 years.

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Blog 15 years of legal finance: Industry firsts and cases that transformed the industry Liz Bigham

Video Celebrating 15 years of innovation: Burford's founders share their journey Christopher Bogart, Jonathan Molot

Burford Quarterly Visualizing 15 years of legal finance

Research Legal finance at 15: Global law firm professionals on the state of the industry

Burford Quarterly 15 years of legal finance insights showcase exponential growth David Perla, Aviva Will

Press Release Burford Capital marks 15-year anniversary with latest Burford Quarterly, exploring the evolution of legal finance and its business benefits

What We Do

We finance the business of law.

We fund commercial litigation and arbitration from pre-filing to enforcement, with comprehensive in-house capabilities to help clients shift the cost and risk of their high-value legal disputes.

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Blog 5 minutes with Andrew Farthing

Burford Quarterly Visualizing 15 years of legal finance

Press Release Burford Capital marks 15-year anniversary with business data and new legal finance research

Event Hannah Howlett, Tom Brown and Christopher Jeffreys to speak at LIIARC

News Aviva Will on Fordham Law's "Bite-Sized Business" Podcast

Publication Introducing the Equity Project

Who We Work With

Leading businesses and law firms trust Burford.

Fortune 500 companies and top law firms choose Burford to fund and monetize their commercial litigation and arbitration.

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What we do for businesses

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Antitrust & competition Accelerating Fortune 100 company’s claim value for immediate working capital

International arbitration Preserving OPEX while pursuing bet-the-company litigation

What we do for law firms

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Fees & expenses Bridging the gap between a firm’s billing model and its client’s budget

Antitrust & competition Fueling a law firm’s expansion of its plaintiff practice

Why Burford?

Clients choose Burford because we have the capital, experience and insight they need to navigate complex litigation.

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Publication

2024 Legal Finance Outlook

The latest report on Burford's business and trends in 2024 draws on 15 years of insights from financing leading businesses and law firms, illustrates how Fortune 500s are unlocking value and reducing risk in their legal departments and shows how law firms can build and sustain high value practice areas to fuel growth.

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We help businesses and law firms use legal finance to transform how they approach commercial disputes.

We finance the business of law.

Leading businesses and law firms trust Burford.

What we do for businesses

What we do for law firms

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