Litigation Funding
Litigation Support Guide 2024 : UK-wide
Band 4
About
Provided by Orchard Global
Orchard Global is a multi-strategy alternative asset manager providing transformational financing solutions to help banks, asset managers, and companies solve challenging capital and liquidity needs. Orchard Global manages over $8.1bn in total AUM.
Orchard Global’s litigation finance business was established in 2015 as an allocation within the firm’s flagship, multi-strategy fund. It has since made over 100 litigation finance investments across four Orchard-managed funds, and the firm launched a dedicated, standalone litigation finance fund in November 2022. Orchard Global’s typical investment sizes is between GBP 1,000,000 and GBP 10,000,000 for single cases and around GBP 30m for portfolio and speciality lending with flexibility to extend beyond these parameters.
Orchard Global considers all types of commercial litigation and arbitration globally, with a focus on England & Wales, other common law jurisdictions and EU countries. Orchard Global can provide a complete range of funding solutions, such as:
∙ General commercial disputes
∙ Group actions
∙ Competition claims
∙ Insolvency related disputes
∙ IP infringement disputes
∙ International arbitration claims
∙ Law firm lending
∙ Portfolio financing
Orchard Global is a member of the Association of Litigation Funders.
Chambers Review
Orchard Global Asset Management is an alternative asset manager with a dedicated litigation funding service. It funds single claims and also assists clients with portfolio and other alternative arrangements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team are very engaging and hands-on, which means that they fully understand and engage with the complexities that sometimes arise, and they find solutions while remaining commercially focused."
"They are very responsive, easy to work with and have some great contacts. They are very flexible as funders."
"The team are very engaging and hands-on, which means that they fully understand and engage with the complexities that sometimes arise, and they find solutions while remaining commercially focused."
"They are very responsive, easy to work with and have some great contacts. They are very flexible as funders."
Notable Practitioners
Lara Melrose is co-head of litigation finance at Orchard Global. She has experience funding a variety of matters, including single and group claims, as well as portfolio investments.
"Lara is a great leader. She has a great depth of knowledge of the litigation funding market, is super responsive, engages with the issues, and provides practical and very commercial solutions."
"Lara is well organised, responsive, pragmatic and supportive as a team player. I would not hesitate to recommend her to others."
"Lara brings a wealth of experience and commercial focus to any funded dispute."
Ranked Individuals at
Orchard Global
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