Inside the New Burford Quarterly: Navigating Global Business Disputes

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Burford Capital (NYSE:BUR) released Burford Quarterly No.4 2025 on October 16, 2025, a journal examining how legal finance provides liquidity and offsets risk amid economic headwinds.

The edition covers Burford's strategic minority investment in Kindleworth and explores legal finance applications across pharma, construction, and UK opt-out collective actions. It highlights rising complexity in cross-border disputes, the use of arbitration and financing to manage escalating costs and timelines, and the role of legal finance in enabling costly claims to proceed under the UK collective redress regime.

Legal finance continues to transform how businesses and law firms manage risk, unlock capital and pursue opportunity amid increasing complexity and change

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today releases its latest Burford Quarterly, a journal of legal finance that explores the top trends at the nexus of law and finance.

This edition of The Burford Quarterly showcases how legal finance provides liquidity and offsets risk amid evolving market pressures and economic headwinds. The Quarterly delves into the strategic and practical dimensions of legal finance across sectors including pharma and construction and details how Burford's innovative leadership helps companies and law firms navigate complex disputes.

"The landscape of business disputes is evolving rapidly, with companies facing increasingly complex litigation, regulatory scrutiny and cross-border challenges," said David Perla, Vice Chair at Burford Capital. "Legal finance is no longer just a financing tool—it's a strategic resource that helps businesses unlock capital tied up in legal claims and manage risk across portfolios. This edition of The Burford Quarterly highlights how businesses can move ahead with greater confidence by offsetting legal risk through legal finance solutions."

Articles in the Burford Quarterly No.4 2025 include:

• Financing the future of law: A dialogue with Kindleworth and Burford Capital
  Burford's Chief Development Officer Travis Lenkner, Kindleworth co-founder James Hacking and partner Mike Estill discuss the strategic drivers behind Burford's new strategic minority investment in Kindleworth, a specialist in the launch and management of market-leading law firms, and how innovation is shaping the future of the legal profession and the business of law.

• Making the case for legal finance in the generic drug market
  Generic and branded pharmaceutical companies face significant litigation and development expenses when bringing products to market. Increasing financial pressures are leading many to turn to legal finance as a strategic tool to manage risk, unlock capital and support growth.

• Global construction disputes reflect shifting market pressures
  Rising project complexity and supply chain disruption are driving an uptick in high-value construction disputes worldwide. As timelines lengthen and costs escalate, parties are increasingly turning to arbitration and innovative financing solutions to manage risk and maintain project momentum.

• Ten years of opt-out collective actions in the UK
  Since the Consumer Rights Act 2015 introduced opt-out collective actions, the UK regime has matured from cautious beginnings to a credible tool for securing redress in competition cases. Legal finance has been central to this evolution, enabling claims to proceed despite high costs and risks—and it will remain essential as policymakers consider expanding collective redress to new areas of harm.

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR) and works with companies and law firms around the world from its global network of offices.

For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com.

This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any ordinary shares or other securities of Burford Capital or any of its affiliates.

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FAQ

What did Burford announce in the Burford Quarterly No.4 2025 (BUR)?

Burford announced the release of Burford Quarterly No.4 2025, discussing legal finance trends and its strategic minority investment in Kindleworth.

How does Burford say legal finance helps pharmaceutical companies (BUR)?

Burford says legal finance can unlock capital and manage litigation and development costs for generic and branded pharmaceutical companies.

What issues in global construction does Burford highlight in Burford Quarterly (BUR)?

Burford highlights rising project complexity, supply chain disruption, longer timelines and higher costs that increase high‑value construction disputes.

What did Burford report about UK opt-out collective actions (BUR)?

Burford notes ten years since the 2015 Consumer Rights Act, saying the UK regime matured and legal finance has been central to enabling complex claims.

What is the significance of Burford's investment in Kindleworth for investors (BUR)?

Burford frames the Kindleworth minority investment as strategic, aimed at supporting innovation in law‑firm launch and management capabilities.