We have offered conditional fee agreements (“CFA”), accompanied by after the event insurance (“ATE”), since they were first introduced in 1996. We were also early adopters of contingency fee agreements and then damages-based agreements (“DBA”) from 2013, when legal regulations extended their use to all civil proceedings in  England and Wales.

Alternative fee arrangements between law firms and their clients used to be limited to scenarios where clients did not have the money to litigate or had problems with cashflow. That is no longer the case.

We have now acted in more than 2,000 disputes for nearly 4,500 clients and have recovered well in excess of £2bn in damages using alternative funding arrangements of one or more forms. 

Our clients are increasingly aware of the potential benefits of contingency and conditional fee agreements as part of a strategic and commercial approach to managing disputes. Through the provision of substantial investment in our client’s cases, we create correlation of risk.  If external funds are required, we have a strong track-record of securing competitive terms for our clients from litigation funders.

Stewarts Litigate is a groundbreaking after the event (ATE) insurance facility with Arthur J Gallagher UK Limited. The facility is designed to work alongside Stewarts’ alternative funding agreements to enable our commercial disputes clients to litigate from a position of confidence.