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Litigation Funding Tax and Retaliatory Tax: Top Points from the Latest JCT Scores

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The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on June 22, 2025, released tables providing revenue estimates for provisions of the recent Senate Committee on Finance bill language (JCX-29-25) as well as those of the comparable House...more

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Senator Tillis Introduced a Bill Taxing Proceeds of Litigation Financing Agreements

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Senator Thom Tillis introduced a bill (called the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act”) that would impose additional significant taxes on litigation funding investments. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OH) introduced a similar bill...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Navigating the Rise of UK Class Actions Implications for Private Equity

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As collective redress actions rise, sponsor and corporate statements are under high scrutiny, with an industry developing to take advantage....more

IMS Legal Strategies

GoSueMe: The Broken Promises Of Third-Party Litigation Funding

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Forget cryptocurrency—there is another kind of investment making the news in recent years and creating major headaches for corporate defendants: litigation funding. Originally published in the Winter 2024 Issue of In-House...more

Goodwin

Security For Costs, Cross-Undertakings And Litigation Funding: Recent Guidance From The Court Of Appeal

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The issue of security for costs has come into focus in recent years in the context of the increased trend of commercial litigation funders supporting claims in the English courts. The Court of Appeal has recently provided...more

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Deputy Associate Attorney General Sheds Light on DOJ’s FCA Priorities at Annual False Claims Act Conference

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“Enforcing the False Claims Act is a top priority for the Department—not just for our office,” said Deputy Associate Attorney General Stephen Cox, the Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam...more

Carlton Fields

Litigation Finance on the Rise — But Questions Abound

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Increasingly, lawyers are identifying a purportedly injured plaintiff, a theory of liability, and a defendant, and then turning to a hedge fund to finance the lawsuit, perhaps with the help of a litigation finance specialist....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Derailing an Expert in the Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation: What Every Litigator Needs to Know

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The business of buying, selling, investing in, and arbitraging legal claims continues to grow, and carries with it hidden pitfalls. This is particularly the case when a litigation expert has a business relationship with a...more

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