Litigation Funding - UK-wide
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Balance Legal Capital is an experienced funder and its team includes several senior lawyers from top City firms. The firm funds commercial disputes and class actions.
Strengths
Balance Legal Capital has an exceptionally bright, pragmatic and open-minded team.
Balance Legal Capital are my go-to contact in the litigation funding arena. They are excellent to work with. Meticulous in case examination and they work in a thoughtful and well-informed way, which brings value to the case.
Balance Legal Capital is quick, constructive and clear with great professionals.
Balance Legal Capital are a pleasure to deal with. Their processes are fast and efficient. The team is always highly responsive through the funding process and the lifespan of the matter.
The Balance Legal Capital team are exceptional. They bring a depth of experience, commercial flexibility and speed that very few can match, while being a pleasure to work with.
Work Highlights
Balance Legal Capital funded Justin Gutmann's claim on behalf of a class of iPhone users filed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The class alleges Apple slowed down certain models of its iPhones without informing consumers.
Notable practitioners
Robert Rothkopf is the managing partner at Balance Legal Capital. He draws on expertise in international arbitration gained in a prior role at Herbert Smith Freehills.
One of the best. Rob is extremely smart and commercial, making the funding process very efficient.
Rob is very pragmatic and extremely professional.
Lindsay Woods joined Balance Legal Capital in 2022 as an investment manager. She is a qualified barrister in Ontario and has experience in complex commercial litigation, insolvency and financial services disputes, having practised in Canada and the UK.
Lindsay is great. She is an up-and-coming titan of the market.
Lindsay is so good at making connections. She is very well plugged in the international market.
Lindsay is an integral part of the team at Balance Legal Capital, whose commercial awareness and attention to detail is essential to the user experience.
Oliver Hayes is a partner at Balance Legal Capital. Hayes is a former litigation associate at a magic circle law firm. At Balance Legal Capital, he works on origination, due diligence, investment monitoring and fund-raising.
Oli is very approachable, very creative and very meticulous.
Oliver is an absolute pleasure to deal with.
Oliver is a standout practitioner in the litigation funding market and a pleasure to work with.
Jeremy Humm is an investment manager at Balance Legal Capital and an experienced litigation lawyer, having previously been a solicitor in the commercial disputes team of a magic circle law firm and at an international firm's Sydney office.
Jeremy combines razor-sharp legal analysis with commercial pragmatism.
