Litigation funding, explained.

Litigation funding is a financing arrangement in which an external party covers litigation expenses in exchange for a contingent return if the claim succeeds. Funders evaluate cases independently based on legal merits, damages, enforceability, duration, and overall risk profile.

Law firms, corporate claimants, and insolvency professionals use funding to preserve capital, manage downside risk, and support complex matters without carrying the full cost alone.

CaseFin helps counsel evaluate and structure cases for funding. We do not make funding decisions or participate in litigation proceeds.

Not every matter is a fit. Funding tends to make the most sense when several of these conditions are present:

• Meaningful claim value.Funders usually need enough at stake to justify the investment. Many focus on claims above the low millions, though thresholds vary by funder and case type.
• Longer expected duration.Cases that may take a year or more to resolve often benefit more from outside capital.
• Strong merits, limited capital.A viable matter where the client or firm does not want to carry the full cost alone.
• Significant expert or discovery costs.Funding can support legal fees, expert witnesses, e-discovery, trial preparation, and other litigation expenses that scale with complexity.
• Risk sharing.Clients and firms may want to reduce downside exposure while preserving upside.
• Portfolio opportunity.When a firm has multiple fundable matters, structuring them as a portfolio can support larger facilities, better terms, and more efficient engagement with institutional funders.

Each case receives a CaseFin Rating — a Case Strength grade (A–F) and a Funding Readiness score (1–5) drawn from eight weighted factors, four per axis:

Case Strength · A–F

• Legal Merits35%Strength of the legal theory.
• Collectability & Enforcement30%Feasibility of recovery.
• Damages Potential25%Credibility and scale of claimed damages.
• Procedural Posture & Forum10%Case stage and venue context.

Funding Readiness · 1–5

• Counsel & Team30%Execution capability and submission quality.
• Evidence Quality25%Whether the documents support the allegations.
• Funding Fit25%Reasonableness of the funding ask vs. claim value, defendant capacity, and duration.
• Duration / Cost Risk20%Expected timeline and cost exposure.

The analysis is AI-assisted, evidence-linked, and reviewable. Each factor includes an explanation of its score within the Rating; the Rating itself re-derives from the case as the underlying inputs change. Full methodology: The CaseFin Rating.

A Funding Brief is a structured document generated by CaseFin that presents a case in a format aligned with how funders evaluate opportunities.

It includes the case summary, the CaseFin Rating breakdown across all eight factors, rationale for each factor, improvement guidance, and key case details organized for funder review.

The goal is to give counsel a clean, standardized document they can use in funder conversations without rebuilding the presentation each time. Cases that clear CaseFin's export threshold can generate a Funding Brief.

Counsel doesn’t edit the Rating; the Rating responds.

As new evidence is uploaded, procedural developments are logged, or posture moves, the Rating re-derives on the next evaluation pass to reflect the changed case. The same independence applies to the Portfolio Score: counsel adjusts the book (adding cases, shifting allocations), and the Score updates accordingly.

CaseFin keeps score history so counsel can track how a case or portfolio has changed over time.

Portfolio scoring evaluates how cases work together, not just how they score individually. CaseFin analyzes four dimensions:

• Average Case Quality50%The average strength of the underlying matters.
• Diversification25%Spread across case type, jurisdiction, defendant, duration, and claim size.
• Correlation15%Shared risk factors that could affect multiple cases at once.
• Capital Efficiency10%Whether the portfolio's funding allocation and deployment fit the facility being sought.

CaseFin also generates an AI-written investment thesis, risk assessment, strengths analysis, and construction recommendations based on the actual composition of the portfolio.

A Portfolio Funding Brief is the portfolio equivalent of the individual Funding Brief.

It is a structured PDF that includes portfolio analytics, individual case summaries in portfolio context, the investment thesis, risk assessment, and construction rationale. It is the document counsel can take into a funder conversation when seeking a facility.

CaseFin accepts CSV (.csv) and Excel (.xlsx, .xls) files for portfolio import.

After upload, CaseFin detects column headers and suggests field mappings. You can review and override those mappings before import. The platform supports common formats for party names, currency amounts, and case identifiers.

Imported cases are treated as legacy records and can be used in portfolio construction without first going through the individual intake flow.

Yes. Portfolio construction stands alone.

A firm can import an existing pipeline by spreadsheet and get portfolio analytics without first submitting each matter through the individual intake workflow. For a full CaseFin Rating on individual matters, those cases should be submitted through the structured intake.

CaseFin is built around the constraint that litigation details are sensitive.

• Permissioned access.Counsel controls who can view cases and portfolio data.
• Document handling.Files are stored with scoped access and full audit trails.
• Isolated evaluation.Each case and portfolio is evaluated in an isolated environment. Data from one firm is never visible to another.
• Reviewable AI.AI-assisted analysis supports human judgment. It does not make funding decisions or operate without oversight.
• Encrypted infrastructure.Data is transmitted over encrypted connections and stored behind access controls designed for sensitive legal workflows.

No. CaseFin does not act as a funder, broker, marketplace operator, or financial intermediary.

The platform helps organize, evaluate, and present litigation-related information. All funding decisions are made independently by users and third-party participants.

CaseFin may surface funder profiles and indicate likely fit based on case or portfolio characteristics, but it does not recommend counterparties as legal, financial, or investment advice.

The platform does not negotiate funding terms, structure economic arrangements, or act as a broker or intermediary. Its role is to help counsel prepare, evaluate, and present matters in a more disciplined, funder-aligned format.