‘A warning to third-party funders’: Litigation funders found liable for indemnity costs in $1.6bn Excalibur dispute

‘A warning to third-party funders’: Litigation funders found liable for indemnity costs in $1.6bn Excalibur dispute

In what was a keenly awaited judgment for the third party funding profession, the Commercial Court has yesterday (23 October) handed down judgment on the costs liability of litigation funders in the high profile Excalibur Ventures v Texas Keystone & Ors battle, a $1.6bn energy dispute over oil rights in Iraqi Kurdistan and one of the biggest cases of 2013, and has ordered the funders to pay the defendants’ costs of the action.

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