Preliminary Agenda
Provisional Start & End Times
June 3rd: 8:00am - 5:30pm
Agenda Topics
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The Current State of the Litigation Funding Market
- What has market growth looked like over the past year? What’s projected for 2026?
- Has the market reached maturity? Is the market oversaturated?
- Will the market see consolidation in the near future?
- What new products are emerging to disrupt the market? Is insurance still on the rise?
- What type of cases are the most prominent? Single cases, portfolios, monetization, acceleration?
- How is the Mass Tort market impacting the broader funding arena?
- What’s keeping some investors on the sidelines and what can be done to change that?
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Happy Together: Profiting From the Synergies Between Litigation Insurance and Litigation Funding
- How are funding and insurance working together to lower rates on good risk?
- What solutions are available to de-risk and monetize litigation and arbitration?
- How has the use of insurance impacted pricing and financing options for funding?
- What will insurance cover? What won’t it cover? Is all of this black and white?
- How are insurance policies priced? How much coverage do you need?
- What are funders concerned about?
- Is the increase in “nuclear verdicts” causing concern in the insurance sector and is this impacting insurance related to funding?
- What are the macro-economic impacts on rising insurance and business costs
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What Impacts Are Regulation, Disclosure, Ethics and Transparency Having on Dealmaking?
- What recent legislative action is threatening to restrict funding? What court cases and legal decisions are impacting funders?
- What are current concerns around disclosure and transparency?
- What ethical conflicts of interest are regulators targeting?
- Are there ethical concerns around the participation of private equity and institutional investors in the legal market?
- Is more regulation the answer? Where is regulation important and where is it limiting opportunity?
- What should we make of claims regarding foreign financing and national security concerns?
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Can the Growth of the Mass Tort Market Continue?
- Has the funding of Mass Tort plateaued? What does the future hold?
- Is the Mass Tort industry becoming increasingly vertically integrated?
- What new and emerging fund structures are we seeing?
- What are funders using to evaluate deals? What are expected returns at this point?
- Are funders using technology and AI to evaluate and mitigate risk?
- Exploring ethical concerns around mass tort advertising and case acquisition
- How are Mass Tort deals priced? What is the risk profile for investors?
- What is the role of insurance in the Mass Tort markets
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Client Issues: Key Factors Shaping Law Firm Portfolios and the Strategic Use of Litigation Funding
- What’s behind the increase in larger law firms entering the fray and getting deals done? What can be done to continue this trend?
- How can Litigation Funding be used to drive increased profits and grow a practice?
- How are companies leveraging their legal claims or pending litigation to secure immediate capital?
- Will corporate monetization materialize?
- Exploring non-recourse financing
- What has been successful? What has been a struggle? How have cases been successfully tried in the current market?
- What concerns do law firm general counsel typically identify for funding deals?
- How are funders offering bespoke solutions tailored to corporate clients?
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What’s Driving Funding and the Reasons Behind Investor Decisions
- Are there enough quality cases to support the amount of capital in the market?
- What is the preferred investment structure? Sole investor? Fund? Public Company? Co-investments? Others?
- What are the most promising emerging funding opportunities?
- What are the main concerns from investors? Lack of control? Time to resolution? Lack of track record? Public perception?
- What criteria should be used when evaluating investments in funders?
- How are the potential for substantial returns and “nuclear verdicts “impacting investment appetite?
- What kinds of returns can investors reasonably expect in today’s market?
- Using debt and equity instead of traditional capital raising
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