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Burford Capital

Summary: Two competing legal financing firms are preparing to join forces to create a bigger, more powerful legal financing company.

Legal financer Burford Capital Limited is planning a merge with their rival Gerchen Keller Capital LLC in a $160 million deal. Combining their firms would produce $1.2 billion in investment and commitments in an industry that continue to grow.

  
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More and more law firms are looking to outside sources to fund litigation. Law firm structures quite often prevent them from investing in long-term litigation that requires expensive technology and data security improvements.

Burford committed $30 million to Hausfeld law firm last year to help them grown their presence in Germany. They also said they are committing $100 million in financing for a number of cases at a undisclosed law firm. Christopher P. Bogart founded Burford in 2009. He is the current chief executive but served as the general counsel for Time Warner previously. They report revenues of $103 million.

Gerchen Keller has $1.3 billion in assets raised from financial institutions, public pensions, family wealth offices, foundations, and university endowments. One of their main financing effort in a case in Britain challenging MasterCard fees. They report an income of $15.4 million this year with the operating profit at $9.1 million.

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The deal is reportedly a merger of cash, shares in Burford and loan notes plus combined expertise and resources.

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