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Litigation Funder Communications Protected by the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine

Addressing a novel issue in In re: International Oil Trading Company, LLC, 548 B.R. 825 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2016), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida recently denied in part an involuntary debtor’s motion to compel production of communications between the judgment creditor who had filed the involuntary bankruptcy petition and the petitioner’s litigation funder. The Court found that the attorney-client privilege and work product protection were applicable to certain disclosures made to the litigation funder, a non-lawyer third-party.

USA, Florida, Insolvency & Restructuring, Legal Practice, Litigation, Dechert LLP, Bankruptcy, Work-product doctrine, Attorney-client privilege, Discovery, United States bankruptcy court
Corporate and Business Rescue in Australia: Insolvency Law Reform Process Continues as Government Releases Proposals Paper

Background

On 7 December 2015, the Australian Government released its "National Innovation and Science Agenda" ("Agenda"). In the Agenda, the Government outlined its intention to make three significant reforms to Australia's insolvency laws, adopting the recommendations of the Productivity Commission ("Commission") in its report, "Business Set-Up, Transfer and Closure" ("Report"), released on the same day as the Agenda:

Australia, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Jones Day