Probate Funding and the Litigation Funding Debate

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

Litigation Funding: The Attorney's Perspective - 01/27/14

In a previous article,1 we discussed some of the basic tax considerations investors face in lawsuits. We concluded that debt treatment tends to be unfavorable to an investor because income is ordinary and the investor may even be required to accrue phantom income. Outside the debt context, we observed, the investor tends to be indifferent as to whether the arrangement is a prepaid forward contr...

Toward a Regulatory Framework for Third-Party Funding of Litigation

Funding knowledgebases: Towards a sustainable funding model

Millions of life scientists across the world rely on bioinformatics data resources for their research projects. Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases. Despite the increasing need for such highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information, most of them do not have secured funding over the near future and o...

Funding knowledgebases: Towards a sustainable funding

Millions of life scientists across the world rely on bioinformatics data resources for their research projects. Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases. Despite the increasing need for such highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information, most of them do not have secured funding over the near future and o...