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What Is Litigation Finance?


Eva Shang explains the principles of litigation finance.
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00:00Litigation finance is the practice of investing in lawsuits.
00:04If the lawsuit is successful, you get paid, and if the lawsuit is unsuccessful, then you
00:08don't recover your principal.
00:10There are 81 million civil cases filed every year in the United States.
00:14We crawl through all of those cases and we look for commercial litigation that has passed
00:19a turning point that indicates that someone, usually the judge, has looked at the case
00:23and said, it's not bad, please proceed.
00:26That's really the point at which we reach out to them and say congratulations on surviving
00:29your motion for summary judgment.
00:31You might be figuring out how you might pull together millions of dollars to pay for an
00:36expert witness to testify at trial.
00:39We can help.
00:40We will take a look at the case and we'll say your case is only worth 5 million at best.
00:45You really can't be spending more than 500,000 a million to litigate the case.
00:50So we come in, we put together a defined budget, and we do this on just a few hundred thousand
00:56cases per year out of the tens of millions that are filed.
00:59So we do the same, because of our
01:01principles and so on just a few hundred times for this year.
01:04We're trying to get it from scratch, but we do what we're trying to do.
01:05We try to get it from the top of the than any other cases.
01:07We don't see if we can get them but we can get them.
01:09So I can get them from now.
01:10If I'm going to keep it, I can't get them.
01:11So we can get them and get the Kanฯฮนans.
01:12You're trying to get them from now on just a few hundred years.
01:15We're trying to get them from now.
01:16You're trying to get them from now.
01:17I know what you can get them from now.
01:19Well, let's just move on from now.
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