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Litigation Capital Management - Taking a bet on other people's lawsuits

April 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • LIT
  • Price:
  • 91.25p
Despite the general malaise affecting new issues, one sector that has been lively is litigation finance, with two new companies recently joining AIM - Manolete (MANO; 468p) and Litigation Capital Management. Both have seen very strong share price gains already; investors may have been influenced by the superb performance of Burford Capital (BUR; 1622p), the world’s largest litigation funder, which listed in 2009 and has spectacularly grown its pretax profits from US$34m in 2012 to US$315m in 2018, with operating margins up from 63% to 84%. Back in 2009 Burford had raised just £80m when it floated - less than half its £200m target. Fast-forward to December 2018 and it was able to raise U ...

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