Litigation funder Burford Capital can be named as the plaintiff in lawsuits brought by its financing client Sysco, a federal judge in Chicago has ruled, rejecting a challenge from chicken ...

Burford Capital Ltd. reassigned its finance chief, who is married to the chief executive, following investors’ concerns about their relationship, the international litigation-finance firm said ...

Burford, founded in 2009, is the only publicly traded U.S. litigation finance company. The size and number of funders has grown in the United States over the past decade.

Burford Capital Limited (BUR)’s share was trading at $14.28 as of May 12th. BUR’s trailing and forward P/E were 15.19 and 9.68 respectively according to Yahoo Finance.

Burford still investigates each individual case, meaning it has had to increase hiring of experienced litigators to try and identify cases that stand a good chance of winning. The company now has ...

Your editorial “ The Litigation Finance Snare ” (March 21) correctly recognizes that the industry is now big business and that Burford Capital, the largest provider, is involved in litigation ...

Burford Capital’s share of the $16 billion a US judge in New York ordered Argentina to pay over its 2012 seizure of oil company YPF SA is around $6.2 billion, which would give the litigation ...

A woman is in a critical condition after being swept from a barge and into the Grand Union Canal in Buckinghamshire. The 62-year-old from Burford, Oxon, who has not been named, was on a break with ...