Craig Patrick Arnott

James MacKinnon: I've worked in the Middle East and in Asia, and one constant has remained throughout my career: London's central role in global disputes. Geoff Nicholas: Despite competition from other legal markets, London continues to attract complex high-stakes commercial cases. Businesses choose the English courts for their neutrality, commercial sensibility and London's global connectivity.

Philipp Leibfried: For most businesses, litigation is a cost center, but it doesn't have to be that way. With legal finance, legal teams can generate value from high value claims and be a strategic asset to the business. At Burford Capital, that's what we help clients do. Commercial disputes are expensive and getting more so. Four in five in-house lawyers expect litigation spend to rise by at least 10% in the next five years.

Summary To explore the thinking behind Burford's partnership with Kindleworth and its implications for the future of the legal industry, Burford’s Travis Lenkner sat down with Kindleworth’s James Hacking and Mike Estill for a conversation. In September 2025, Burford Capital announced a strategic minority investment in Kindleworth, a legal sector specialist consultancy that helps entrepreneurial lawyers plan, launch and manage their own boutique law firms.