Commercial disputes · Arbitration · Legal assets
Protect the downside.Preserve the upside.
Specialist insurance and risk transfer for commercial litigation, international arbitration, legal assets and litigation finance — arranged around the exposure that actually matters to your balance sheet.
Figures shown are illustrative only
- Adverse costs
- Capped rather than open-ended
- Deployed capital
- An agreed portion preserved
- Judgment value
- Held through appeal and enforcement
Signature 03 — Economics
The economics of a dispute
A claim is not a cheque. Between the pleaded figure and the money that reaches the balance sheet sit probability, costs, capital and enforcement. Insurance is bought to change the shape of that distribution.
Illustrative net position
£11.6m
From a pleaded £40m claim. Illustrative only — not a projection or a valuation.
Claim value
£40mThe number in the particulars.
Recovery probability
Applied to a realistic outcome, not the best case.
Own legal costs
Solicitors, counsel and experts through to trial.
Funding return
Where external capital is deployed.
Enforcement drag
Time, jurisdiction and counterparty.
Signature 01 — Exposure
Litigation exposure does not arrive at trial. It compounds from the day you issue.
Move the claim value and the stage. The band shows what is at risk; the darker portion shows what a structured policy is intended to carry. Figures are illustrative only.
- Stage
- Appeal
- Own costs
- £5m
- Adverse costs
- £4.6m
- Retained
- £1.5m
- Transferred
- £8.1m
Illustrative model only. Not a quotation, an indication of availability, or advice.
Signature 02 — Orientation
What are you trying to protect?
Capital committed to a case or a book of cases
Deployed capital is the exposure. Protection preserves an agreed portion of it if the case fails.
- Capital deployed into a case or portfolioCapital ProtectionDownside protection for capital committed to litigation, so an agreed portion of that capital is preserved if the case fails.
- Capital across a book of casesPortfolio Capital ProtectionProtection assessed across a cross-collateralised portfolio rather than a single matter.
- A funder's deployed commitmentLitigation Funder Capital ProtectionCapital protection written for funders deploying non-recourse commitments into cases.
Different balance sheets. Different exposures.
Who we work with
- Businesses & CorporatesPursuing or defending substantial commercial claims without exporting the downside to the balance sheet.
- Law FirmsWIP, conditional and contingent fee exposure across a growing book of matters.
- Litigation FundersPreserving deployed commitments and improving the risk profile presented to investors.
- InvestorsCredit funds, family offices and specialist investors seeking a defined downside on legal-asset exposure.
- Insolvency ProfessionalsAdministrators, liquidators and trustees advancing claims for the benefit of creditors.
- Private EquityContingent litigation exposure that blocks, prices or delays a transaction.
How it works
From confidential enquiry to placement.
- 01
Confidential enquiry
You outline the dispute, the exposure and what needs protecting.
- 02
Risk framing
Merits, quantum, costs and counterparty are mapped into an insurable structure.
- 03
Market engagement
The risk is presented to appropriate underwriting markets.
- 04
Terms
Indicative structures are compared on limit, attachment and conditions.
- 05
Placement
Wording, deeds and conditions precedent are agreed and the policy incepts.
- 06
Through the case
Cover is maintained and adjusted as the matter moves through its stages.
Global
Costs rules differ. So does the cover.
Loser-pays regimes, security requirements, funding regulation and enforcement practice all change what can be insured and how it is structured.
Knowledge Centre
All entries- Litigation FinanceWhat Is Litigation Insurance?How risk transfer applies to disputes, and what it does and does not do.
- ATE InsuranceWhat Is After-the-Event Insurance?Cover arranged after a dispute has arisen, and where it sits in a costs strategy.
- Capital ProtectionWhat Is Capital Protection Insurance?Preserving deployed capital when a case does not succeed.
- Litigation FinanceLitigation Funding vs Litigation InsuranceTwo different instruments, frequently confused, often combined.
General information only. This page is not legal, financial, investment or insurance advice. Any insurance is subject to underwriting and to the terms of the policy wording issued.
Confidential assessment
Tell us what is at risk.
Outline the dispute, the exposure and the capital involved. We review matters in confidence and revert on whether risk transfer is likely to be available.
Submitting information does not create cover, bind any insurer or constitute advice.