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Stonward Best Litigation Funder - Litigation funding
Stonward: Litigation Funder recommended by the Leaders League Ranking
23 de February de 2023 no comments

Stonward has been ranked by Leaders League among the best Spanish Litigation Funders. In its analysis, Leaders League highlights Stonward’s track record and its team. According to the researchers, Stonward holds a “strong position in the areas of commercial litigation, antitrust and insolvency“, and “advises their clients to find the angle to their legal assets, so that they can capitalize the strengths“, offering bespoke solutions to access legal finance. “The team has built a reputation for being pioneers of the litigation funding sector in Spain, combining years of experience in this field with legal technical expertise and a deep understanding…

Litigation Funding Regulation proposed
Guido Demarco for Expansion about the New Resolution on Responsible private funding of litigation
28 de September de 2022 no comments

How to regulate Litigation Funding is a current trend lately. In this regard, Guido Demarco, Director of Stonward, has published an op-ed in the Spanish newspaper Expansión talking about the new Resolution approved by the European Parliament on Responsible Private Funding of Litigation. The Resolution, dated 13 September 2022, recognizes that litigation funding is a growing practice in the EU and calls for a proposal for a Directive to establish common minimum standards on third-party commercial litigation funding addressing the transparency, fairness and proportionality of this tool. The problem, according to Guido, is that the proposed regulation is prone to “over-regulation”. The…

Stonward, ranks Band 1 for Litigation Support – Chambers & Partners
30 de June de 2022 no comments

Chambers 2022 Litigation Support, Europe-wide Litigation Funding: Brokers ranking has been announced. We are pleased and thrilled to share that Stonward has been ranked Band 1 in this ranking, and that our Director, Guido Demarco, has also achieved it. Thank you to our clients for their feedback and thanks to the researchers for their hard-work 👏. See here the full ranking.

Demarco for Leader’s League: “Litigation funding can help balance the scales of justice”
30 de May de 2022 no comments

Our Director and head of legal assets, Guido Demarco, explains in this Q&A for Leader’s League the sector’s growth and dispels some of the misconceptions surrounding it. Trends and innovations, “best friend” relationships between law firms and litigation finance firms, how can companies use litigation financing as a tool to help manage cash flows, and what should law firms know about the practice are some of the subject matters explained by Demarco. “We expect that 2022 will bring more regulatory developments, and although stakeholders usually welcome regulation to bring clear rules and transparency into the equation, there are concerns that…

Third party funding, IPA Peru
Arbitration experts agree: Litigation Funding does not generate frivolous lawsuits
24 de February de 2022 no comments

The second International Congress on Litigation Funding (LF), organized by Stonward and the Peruvian Institute of Arbitration, highlighted some ideas: litigation funding does not generate frivolous claims, and the legislation being proposed by bodies such as the EU is prone to “over-regulation”. The experts who participated in the talk –specialists in third-party funding and/or specialized in the world of arbitration who have worked directly with funding– were: Antonio Bravo, partner in charge of the Litigation and Arbitration practice at Eversheds Sutherland in Spain; Daniel Rodríguez, partner and co-head of the arbitration and litigation practice at CMS Rodríguez-Azuero in Colombia; Guido…