Tag Archives: Augusta Ventures
Five Augusta Ventures’ Employees Set to Depart for Omni Bridgeway
It is a common refrain that the litigation finance industry has never been in a better situation, with investors seeing it as a valuable alternative asset class and funders experiencing increasing demand for their services around the world. However, a booming market leads to fierce competition between funders, with employees more frequently seeing opportunities at…
Analyzing EU Regulatory Reforms Against the Australian and British Systems
Following last year’s release of the Voss Report and its recommendations for further regulation of litigation funding within the European Union, there has been much discussion over the individual proposals within the report. However, it is also worthwhile to look at the proposed reforms through a comparative lens and see how their impact could mirror…
Diversifying Capital Pools
As funders look to embrace best practices in risk mitigation strategies, diversification of capital pools is a critical component for litigation finance portfolio building. According to new research, structured dispute finance can improve funding access. …
Augusta Ventures on Cross Border Funding
Augusta Ventures has published new research into pitfalls associated with self funding cross border dispute resolution. Augusta suggests that international litigation should be supported by third party funding rather than self funding practices that may jeopardize balance sheets….
Feuding Company Founders
In the United Kingdom, company founders who find themselves grappling with argumentative co-founders have various avenues for dispute resolution. One such utility is unfair prejudice. Augusta Ventures explains that litigation should not be the first port of call for dispute resolution, however, it may be necessary for company co-founders and/or shareholders who feel treated unfairly. …
Construction Litigation Finance is Undervalued
Given the granular complexities comprising construction blueprints, some firms organize their profit centers by navigating the margins of enterprise construction mismanagement. Construction claim conversion is currently undervalued, according to a new report published by Augusta Ventures and FTI Consulting. …
Augusta Ventures Lists Litigation Finance Benefits
Augusta Ventures has been a pioneer in international litigation finance, putting to work over $770M of capital into litigation investment agreements since its founding in 2013, Augusta purports a pedigree of litigation finance innovation well into the future. …
Insurance Comparison Site Facing Antitrust Complaint
More than 20 million potential claimants believe they overpaid on their homeowner’s insurance because of overt bias on a price comparison website. Augusta Ventures is backing the claim for an undisclosed percentage of any potential award.
Augusta Ventures brings in SYZ Capital’s Uncorrelated Strategies lead as new Chief Investment Officer following earlier £250m fund raising
Augusta Ventures, a specialist asset manager focussed on the litigation and disputes funding sector, has appointed SYZ Capital’s current Uncorrelated Strategies lead – Gian Kull – as its new Chief Investment Officer. The move follows Augusta’s closure of its third pool of funding in June 2021 which brought the firm’s AuM to £585m. This enabled the firm to continue to fund an unprecedented pipeline of opportunities in high value litigation and dispute scenarios.
Episode 59: Robert Hanna, Augusta Ventures
In this episode, we sat down with Robert Hanna, co-founder of Augusta Ventures, the largest litigation funder in the UK by case volume. Robert discussed Augusta’s recent GBP 250 million fundraise, including how the company plans to invest its capital, how he envisions the global market for litigation funding will evolve post-COVID, and what the large funding round says about the viability of the litigation funding industry.
