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Funding Litigation Against Financial Institutions & Big Corporates in 2024 - Issues For Your Radar

19 Feb 2024

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Funding Litigation Against Financial Institutions & Big Corporates in 2024 - Issues For Your Radar

Highlights

New opportunities for claims against financial institutions and corporate giants continue to arise; fuelled not least by an increased focus on ESG issues, and new classes of financial assets. There continues to be a strong appetite for funding group actions among funders who see the potential for substantial returns. However, parties and funders have also had to adapt to a changing landscape arising from the PACCAR decision, developing case law on the scope of representative actions, and an increasingly crowded marketplace. What are the opportunities and dangers that await for funders in 2024? Have funding models changed? This session explores these broad themes and in particular:

  • What is driving class actions against financial institutions and big corporates?
  • Will crypto-related claims take off in 2024?
  • What are the pros and cons of portfolio level funding?
  • How do funders anticipate and approach difficulties of enforcement?
Jonathan McDonagh
Barrister
Serle Court

Jonathan is a commercial chancery junior specialising in complex and high value litigation in the fields of private client, company, civil fraud, and general commercial disputes.

In recent years, Jonathan has been instructed in some of the most high-profile pieces of litigation before the English courts, including Pakistan v Prince Muffakham Jah (the Hyderabad Fund dispute) and Munícipio de Mariana and oths v BHP Group (the Fundão Dam disaster litigation). There is an international dimension to much of Jonathan's work and he is frequently instructed to provide advice in respect of matters proceeding overseas as well as in this jurisdiction.


Jonathan McDonagh
Jonathan McDonagh Barrister
Serle Court
Jeremy Evans
Partner
Pogust Goodhead

As Partner in the International and Competition departments, and with over 14 years in the legal sector, Jeremy Evans leads the Orange Juice Cartel Litigation and plays a pivotal role in the Fundão Dam Litigation.

Before joining Pogust Goodhead in August 2019, Jeremy was part of the International Group Claims department at Leigh Day.

Jeremy Evans also leads a number of Pogust Goodhead’s Competition Law cases, which focus on breaches of section 2(1) of the Competition Act 1998 and Article 101 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union through resale price maintenance.


Jeremy Evans
Jeremy Evans Partner
Pogust Goodhead
Charlie Rooke
Vice President
Burford Capital

Charlie Rooke is a Vice President with responsibility for assessing and underwriting legal risk as part of Burford’s investment team in London, with a particular focus on complex commercial and competition litigation in the UK and Europe.
Prior to joining Burford, Mr. Rooke was a Senior Counsel at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he managed multi-million pound disputes and competition claims in the UK, Europe and APAC, and handled significant regulatory enforcement matters involving a wide range of global regulators. He also worked as a litigator at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, representing high-profile clients including major banks and large corporates in the UK and internationally in a large portfolio of litigation matters, particularly relating to complex financial products or markets.
Mr. Rooke earned his law degree from Oxford University and completed his Legal Practice Course at BPP Law School in London.


Charlie Rooke
Charlie Rooke Vice President
Burford Capital

Agenda

11:55am
Audience Log On
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Jonathan McDonagh - Barrister - Serle Court
12:05pm
Funding Litigation Against Financial Institutions & Big Corporates in 2024 - Issues For Your Radar
Speakers:
Jonathan McDonagh - Barrister - Serle Court
Jeremy Evans - Partner - Pogust Goodhead
Charlie Rooke - Vice President - Burford Capital
12:45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Jonathan McDonagh - Barrister - Serle Court

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