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For over fifty years, class actions in the US have been initiated and litigated by self-driven entrepreneurial lawyers. Lawyers have taken the risks and costs of pursuing class action litigation in...

The Mulvaney Memo on the CFPB and the rule of law is one of the most remarkable documents to be published by an agency head in many years. It signals a deep commitment to the rule of law as a...

Crowdfunding—the aggregation of numerous but modest individual contributions through specialized online platforms—is a relatively new finance method. In the last few years, it has started its...

The use of third-party litigation financing — generally defined as the funding of litigation activities by entities other than the parties themselves, their insurers or their counsel — continues to...

As shareholder litigation expands globally and increases in economic significance, so does the interest of parties in fighting over the rules that govern it and determine its scope. Sometimes this...

The loss suffered by buyers in a typical securities fraud class action may come from several distinct sources: lower expected return or a higher cost of capital or a one-time outflow of cash or a...

Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU) sets out the process by which an EU Member State may withdraw from the European Union. It provides that a Member State may decide to withdraw “in...

The Brussels I Regulation (recast) (EU) 1215/2012 (Brussels I) contains rules of private international law to determine which courts have jurisdiction over claims in European civil and commercial...

This post comes to us from Helen Kavanagh, and Andreas Lehmann of Squire Patton Boggs. The statistics show that over 10,000 English limited companies operate in Germany. Kornhaas Montage und...