For litigators, the company can be viewed as a data point to answer bigger questions: What is the current state of litigation finance? And where is it headed? (And for a primer on litigation finance, you can watch this Bloomberg Law video.)
On that front, two metrics from Burford’s financial reports are useful. One is how much Burford invests in cases in any given period, and the other is how much money its investments bring in. In Burford-speak, those figures are called “deployments” and “investment income.”
