The primary expectation that a funding applicant has from a funder is that it provides sufficient financial needs to pursue its case. However, this is only part of the value add. In addition to financial resources, professional litigation financers also: 1) have a deeper understanding of the asset class than traditional non-recourse financers or banks …
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The Law Review has published its sixth edition of the Investment Treaty Arbitration Review. Iain Mckenny, Co Founder and head of Legal at Profile Investment, contributed the Chapter 11, on the Evolution of the Third Party Funder. The evolution of the third party funder is an analytical piece of salient and recent cases involving third …
Chambers and Partners is a world renown organisation for independently ranking law firms and legal services such as litigation financing. We were honoured to be recognised as one of the 6 leading litigation funders globally for international arbitration. Profile investment is further pleased to announce that we have been ranked in Band 2 for Europewide …
This week, Profile Investment was pleased to host the laureates of PILWA 2019 in its Paris office. PILWA, a competition open to university students was launched almost two years ago. With the first prize winner securing an internship at Profile Investment, the competition was tough, and we received many impressive responses to the following question: …
The new Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (“2021 Swiss Rules”) entered into force on 1 June 2021. These refer to the institutional rules of the newly created Swiss Arbitration Centre and replace the 2012 Swiss Rules of the (then) Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (“SCAI”). This rule modification, at the institutional level, follows another recent modification, …
Depuis longtemps déjà, l’université française accueille nombre d’étudiants étrangers sur ses bancs, notamment en droit international. La méthodologie juridique et la langue française demeurent des barrières encore relativement hautes parfois, mais certains s’en sortent brillamment et tous n’ont pas vocation à devenir juristes français ou de droit civil. Paris place de l’arbitrage est en effet …
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One of the reasons Malcolm Gladwell’s writings are so successful is because he pulls together specialised views from across disciplines when addressing in a new and novel way historical issues “often misunderstood or overlooked”. This is the essence of his wildly popular Revisionist History podcast. From this cross disciplinary analysis, Gladwell offers a more complete …
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Les économies libérales pourraient être comparées à des ruches sophistiquées, interconnectées, construites par les entreprises (personnes morales), avec le ciment du droit des sociétés et le liant des droits contractuels et sociaux. Cette construction permet en effet à la civilisation de se développer dans un environnement de stabilité relative et de confiance sociale. Elle a …
The top four international arbitration institutes by sheer volume of work are the ICC, LCIA, SCC and SIAC. These four institutions one can reasonably assume administer the vast majority of international commercial arbitrations. They have long served the international arbitration community well and international arbitration as the primary option for commercial cross border disputes have …
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