Litigation Funds

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Litigation Finance Growing Rapidly, New Burford Capital Research Shows

The Record 17 Oct 2018

... litigation finance." ... (General counsel)"Increasingly, we are seeing more companies who want to use it not because they cannot afford themselves to finance the litigation but because they see a way to monetize an asset that sits on their balance sheet or to de-risk the funding of litigation up to and including blue chip multinational companies."...

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Greenwich businessman arrested

Greenwich Time 17 Oct 2018

GREENWICH — A developer and businessman from Greenwich was arrested by police on Tuesday, on an arrest warrant issued out of the state of Delaware ... According to court records, Klein has been engaged in civil litigation, in which he was alleged to have misappropriated funds from investors in a company he began. The company, Pecksland LLC, was created in Delaware as a limited liability company ... ....

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BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund, Inc. Announces Upcoming Repurchase Offer

Market Watch 17 Oct 2018

Today, BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund, Inc ... The Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company ... Availability of Fund Updates ... This press release, and other statements that BlackRock or a Fund may make, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect to a Fund’s or BlackRock’s future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations....

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Clinics ask judge to halt suit

Arkansas Online 17 Oct 2018

3, 2020 -- more than 15 months from now -- the case has largely been proceeding slowly and quietly since July 30, when Baker denied Planned Parenthood's latest request for a preliminary injunction that would have restored the funding while the case was litigated ... Asa Hutchinson ordered the funding to be cut off ... whether the state's discontinuation of Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood services violated the Medicaid Act....

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Tesla's Legal Pain Has Just Begun

Seeking Alpha 17 Oct 2018

CEO Elon Musk started off the drama with his now-infamous “funding secured” tweet, which kicked off an abortive effort to take the electric vehicle maker private ... Indeed, while the SEC has settled on the “funding secured” issue, the Department of Justice is still pursuing its own separate investigation of the case ... Worse still for Tesla is the fact that large funds are getting into the litigation....

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Campaign questions: Austin City Council’s District 3 race draws incumbent, five challengers

Community Impact Newspaper 17 Oct 2018

First, fight the state to get it to increase the amount of revenue it puts into the Texas Education Recapture “Robin Hood” fund so the COA can in turn lower property taxes. If the COA is going to litigate anything this should be it ... I supported the 2016 Mobility Bond because it included funding to improve major corridors like Riverside and Airport as well as tens of millions for sidewalk improvements and safe routes to school....

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BlackRock to Host Closed-End Fund Conference Call on Wednesday, October 17th

Odessa American 16 Oct 2018

Stephen Minar, Director, Closed-End Funds. For more information on BlackRock’s closed-end funds, please visit www.blackrock.com/CEF ... This press release, and other statements that BlackRock or a Fund may make, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect to a Fund’s or BlackRock’s future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations....

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Women business owners find ways to deal with gender bias

Messenger-Inquirer 16 Oct 2018

When Bradford sought funding for her San Francisco-based company, “I often felt like I didn’t get the credit for having the technical experience,” she says ... “They think, he must have funded me ... “Everyone is a little shocked when it happens and it’s harder than you think,” says Pekin, co-founder of Momentum Funding, a company that helps people finance litigation costs....

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Female entrepreneurs still dealing with business slights

Albuquerque Journal 15 Oct 2018

When Bradford sought funding for her San Francisco-based company, “I often felt like I didn’t get the credit for having the technical experience,” she says ... “They think, he must have funded me ... “Everyone is a little shocked when it happens, and it’s harder than you think,” says Pekin, co-founder of Momentum Funding, a Boca Raton-Fla.-based company that helps people finance litigation costs ... ....

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Dina LaPolt: Beware a Sneak Attack on Creators' Rights (Guest Op-Ed)

Billboard 15 Oct 2018

Uh oh, here we go again. Just this past January, I wrote an op-ed about copyleft professors using the American Law Institute (ALI) to underhandedly slip some copyleft crib notes to federal judges. The project paused and I thought ALI would put an end to it ... to celebrate the passage of the Music Modernization Act (MMA) ... [readmore.8479476] ... Sprigman has authored five Google-funded Academic papers. Gervais has sided with Google in litigation....

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Newron Pharmaceuticals Announces Prominent Medical Experts to Present at its 2018 R&D Day on October ...

Odessa American 15 Oct 2018

... to raise additional funds, (6) success of existing and entry into future collaborations and licensing agreements, (7) litigation, (8) loss of key executive or other employees, (9) adverse publicity and news coverage, and (10) competition, regulatory, legislative and judicial developments or changes in market and/or overall economic conditions....

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Melania and Ivanka Trump Accepted ‘Humiliation’ and Agreed to Become Donald Trump’s Brand Extensions

Newsweek 15 Oct 2018

They were as Trump-branded as the buildings bearing his name across the city of New York ... Politics ... She kick-started a World Bank fund for female entrepreneurs in the developing world that has won kudos from both sides of the political spectrum ... Two millionaire pals of Trump funded the anti-aging cream, but when a subsequent dispute disintegrated into a highly entertaining octopus of litigation, the product never got to retail ... Trump....

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Therium to Launch Full Service Litigation Funding Operations in Australia in January 2019

Business Wire 14 Oct 2018

MELBOURNE, Australia & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THERIUM TO LAUNCH FULL SERVICE LITIGATION FUNDING OPERATIONS IN AUSTRALIA IN JANUARY 2019 ... ....

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