Skip to Footer Select Region Menu About Burford Press & events Shareholders How we work Home How we work Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by email Copy URL Print page With companies We help companies to offload legal risk, enhance budget certainty and accelerate return on legal assets. Learn more With law firms We help law firms to better serve clients, compete for new business and invest in growth. Learn more Expertise Burford’s capabilities and expertise meet a range of clients’ commercial legal finance needs. Learn more We assess the value of commercial legal assets, determine the economics of potential investments and structure deal terms to optimize results for our clients. Burford’s process At its core, our business is built on Burford’s expertise in valuing legal assets and our capacity to provide capital to our clients who have those assets. Most often, we provide upfront capital in exchange for a portion of a successful outcome. We make investments, not loans, and they are almost always non-recourse. Law firm and in-house lawyers who are new to legal finance often have questions about how Burford’s investment process works. Step 1: Initial review After signing a confidentiality agreement, Burford quickly confirms that matters meet our financing criteria. Step 2: Diligence Burford’s lawyers and financial analysts conduct the entirety of our merits diligence review and economic analysis in-house. Step 3: Investment We structure deal terms based on client needs, and after approval by Burford’s investment committee we make the investment. Step 4: Monitoring As passive capital providers we monitor investments to help maximize value for our clients. Latest insights BLOG Navigating unfamiliar territory: Legal finance as a guide to plaintiff-side commercial litigation VIDEOS Burford Asks: How does The Equity Project incentivize diversity in the business of law? BLOG 5 minutes with... Gabriela Bersuder BLOG 5 minutes on... Financing affirmative recovery programs View all insights How we work Insights Team Shareholders Search About Burford Media Room Contact Locations Select Region LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Burford's businesses include legal finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. © Burford Capital LLC 2020 Privacy policy California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Notice Terms & conditions Complaints notice for Burford Law clients