Ranking Investment Banks 2011

Selection criteria included market share, customer service and advice, deal-structuring capabilities, distribution network, and staff dedicated to investment banking. They also considered efforts to overcome difficult market conditions, pricing and after-market performance of underwritten securities, and market reputation.

To read the ranking of top investment banks for 2011 go to Global Finance.

Top Investment Banks 2011 is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

According to a NYTimes article, Pursuing a civil action in federal court costs an average of $15,000, the Federal Judicial Center reported last year. Cases involving scientific evidence, like medical malpractice claims, often cost more than $100,000.

Hedgefunds and Investors for hire

If you don’t have money to hire an attorney you can get someone to finance your case. From the same article in NYTIMes

Large banks, hedge funds and private investors hungry for new and lucrative opportunities are bankrolling other people’s lawsuits, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into medical malpractice claims, divorce battles and class actions against corporations — all in the hope of sharing in the potential winnings.

It is that simple, outside investors finance your case and if you win they share in the spoils.

“If you want to use the civil justice system, you have to have money,” said Alan Zimmerman, who founded one of the first litigation finance companies in 1994, in San Francisco, now called the LawFinance Group.

Another group in the business of financing litigation is Counsel Financial, a Buffalo company financed by the giant Citigroup,

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