This section will recognise service providers who focus on
identifying, locating, and assisting in the recovery of assets in cases
such as fraud, insolvency, divorce, and enforcement proceedings.
Firms should emphasise their expertise in uncovering hidden or
dissipated assets, including those held through complex corporate
structures, offshore jurisdictions, or nominee arrangements.
Submissions should highlight how teams combine investigative
techniques with financial analysis, and how they collaborate
with insolvency practitioners, litigation teams, and enforcement
agencies to support successful asset recovery.

This section covers firms conducting due diligence, corporate
investigations, and intelligence gathering in support of litigation,
arbitration, enforcement proceedings, and dispute-related
decision-making. Firms should outline their experience in
providing background research on parties and witnesses,
corporate intelligence on opposing entities, investigating
fraudulent conduct, and gathering evidence in jurisdictions
with limited disclosure regimes. Submissions should highlight
how teams combine open-source research, human intelligence
networks, and analytical capabilities, as well as their experience
handling high-stakes disputes, operating across multiple
jurisdictions with differing privacy regimes, and advising major law
firms and corporates on contentious matters.

This section will cover service providers specialising in the
identification, collection, processing, review, and production of
electronically stored information (ESI) in litigation and investigations.
Firms should outline their experience in handling large-scale,
multijurisdictional matters involving complex data sets, advanced
analytics, and technology-assisted review. Submissions should also
highlight the team’s technological infrastructure, expertise in data
privacy and cross-border transfers, and ability to manage significant
volumes of data across multiple custodians and platf

This section will include players providing investigative accounting
and financial analysis in the context of litigation and disputes.
Services typically include examining past financial events, such
as fraud investigations, transaction reconstruction, forensic
audits, and analysis of financial misrepresentation. Firms should
highlight their experience handling complex financial disputes
across areas such as commercial litigation, shareholder disputes,
professional negligence claims, and regulatory investigations.
Submissions should emphasise the technical expertise of the team,
their investigative approach, and their ability to present complex
financial evidence clearly and effectively to courts, tribunals, or
other relevant authorities.

This section will include brokers who arrange after-the-event
(ATE) insurance, adverse costs insurance, and other litigation
risk transfer products. Firms should outline their experience
advising claimants, defendants, and funders on insurance
solutions for commercial disputes, arbitrations, and class
actions, including instances where they work alongside litigation
funders. Submissions should highlight the team’s ability to
structure bespoke policies for complex or high-value disputes,
relationships with underwriting capacity across multiple markets,
understanding of both claimant- and defendant-side risks, and
expertise across different dispute types and jurisdictions.

This section covers insurers who underwrite after-the-event
(ATE) insurance, adverse costs insurance, and other litigation risk
products. Firms should outline their experience providing capacity
for commercial disputes, arbitrations, and class actions, and
describe their approach to insuring both claimant and defendant
risks. Submissions should highlight how underwriters assess
case merit, price risk, and provide capital to support litigation
insurance policies, including instances where they work alongside
funders on claimant-side matters. Firms are encouraged to detail
their appetite for large or complex disputes, speed and flexibility
in underwriting decisions, claims-paying record, and reputation
among brokers, law firms, and litigation funders

This section covers intermediaries who connect claimants and law
firms with litigation funders. Unlike litigation insurance brokers,
who focus on arranging risk protection, funding brokers source
non-recourse capital to finance the pursuit of claims. Firms
should outline their experience advising on funding structures,
negotiating terms with funders, and managing competitive
funding processes for commercial disputes, arbitrations, and
portfolios of claims. Submissions should highlight market
knowledge, relationships across the funding community, ability
to secure competitive terms for high-value and complex matters,
and understanding of both claimant-side and law firm funding
requirements.

This section covers funders headquartered or primarily operating
in the UK who provide non-recourse capital to claimants and
law firms for commercial litigation and arbitration. Firms should
outline their experience funding high-value and complex
disputes, including shareholder actions, insolvency-related claims,
international arbitration, competition claims, and collective
proceedings. Submissions should explain how funders assess
case merit, assume risk, and structure returns based on damages
recovered or settlements achieved. Firms are encouraged to
highlight the size of their deployable capital, sophistication of case
assessment processes, track record across different dispute types
and jurisdictions, and reputation among leading law firms and
repeat users.

This section covers US-headquartered funders providing nonrecourse capital for commercial litigation and arbitration. Firms
should outline their experience funding complex, high-value
disputes such as antitrust claims, patent litigation, international
arbitration, securities litigation, and mass torts. Submissions
should highlight the scale of available capital, the structure and
depth of investment committees, and the funder’s track record
across different practice areas and jurisdictions. Firms may also
wish to note any differences in risk appetite or return expectations
compared to UK-based funders, as well as their international reach
and relationships with major law firms and repeat claimant-side
users.

This section will highlight strategic communications advisers
who manage reputational risk during litigation, investigations,
and disputes. Firms should outline their experience providing
media strategy, crisis management, stakeholder engagement, and
digital reputation services in contentious contexts. Submissions
should highlight experience managing the disclosure of
proceedings, responding to adverse publicity, coordinating with
legal teams, and protecting client reputation throughout trials
and settlements. Firms are encouraged to describe their work on
high-profile or complex disputes, collaboration with litigation
teams and in-house counsel, and their ability to coordinate
multijurisdictional communications strategies while maintaining
privilege and confidentiality.