Litigation funding is a mechanism whereby a third party with no prior interest in a dispute covers the costs of the dispute resolution process on a contingency basis. The cross-boarder business activities of Japanese companies have resulted in business disputes becoming more international, complex, as well as costly to handle.

In recent years, the use of litigation funding has become increasingly common internationally, and the establishment of the first litigation funder in Japan has attracted attention as a method of managing costs of the dispute resolution process.

In this seminar, Yoshie Midorikawa, who has represented a number of Japanese companies in international dispute resolution proceedings, and Irene Lee, who has funded to various companies including Japanese companies as the regional general counsel of the leading international litigation funder, will explain how litigation funding works. The seminar also cover how Japanese companies doing business internationally can minimize the financial risks as well as enforcement risks of a dispute resolution process through working with litigation funders.

This seminar will be held in both Japanese and English. For the English portion, a Japanese translation will be provided in the presentation materials.
*There will be no English translation for the Japanese sections.