Burford Capital LimitedNYSE: BUR

NEW YORK , June 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital Limited ("Burford"), the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, provides the following notifications of various transactions in connection with the Burford Capital 2016 Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP"). Issuance of New Ordinary Shares in Connection with LTIP In connection with the LTIP, on June 26, 2024, Burford has issued 24,909 new ordinary shares, no par value per share ("Shares"), to satisfy the vesting of restricted stock units pursuant to the realization of awards under the LTIP on June 21, 2024.

Examines industries including US healthcare sector, in which consolidation and rising costs are driving an increase in major disputes NEW YORK , June 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today releases its latest Burford Quarterly, a journal of legal finance that explores the top trends at the nexus of law and finance. Articles in the Burford Quarterly 3 2024 include: The business and legal trends shaping healthcare The US healthcare industry is one of the country's largest.

NEW YORK , June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital Limited ("Burford"), the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, provides an update on the completed purchases of Burford's ordinary shares of nil par value ("Shares") to satisfy non-employee directors' awards and grants of Shares to non-employee directors under the Burford Capital Limited 2021 Non-Employee Directors' Share Plan (the "NED Plan"). Completed purchases of Shares On June 4, 2024, Burford completed the open market purchases of 19,285 Shares on the London Stock Exchange at a blended price of 1129.2549p per Share to satisfy a grant of awards to Burford's non-employee directors under the NED Plan.

NEW YORK , June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital Limited ("Burford"), the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces the intended open market purchases of Burford's ordinary shares of nil par value ("Shares") on the London Stock Exchange to satisfy a grant of awards to Burford's non-employee directors under the Burford Capital Limited 2021 Non-Employee Directors' Share Plan as soon as practicable following this announcement. One of Burford's joint brokers, Numis Securities Limited (trading as Deutsche Numis), will purchase the Shares on Burford's behalf, pursuant to an instruction to purchase 19,285 Shares at an approximate market value of £212,135 based on the average closing prices on the London Stock Exchange between May 29, 2024 and May 31, 2024.

Marks the first entry of legal finance—an emerging asset class—to the Indexes NEW YORK , May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital, the leading global finance firm focused on law, is expected to join the broad-market Russell 3000® and small-cap Russell 2000® Indexes at the conclusion of the 2024 Russell US Indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opens on July 1, 2024, according to a preliminary list of additions posted on May 24, 2024. Burford is the first legal finance firm to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the first legal finance firm expected to join the Russell 3000® and 2000® Indexes.

Burford Capital Limited reported a quarterly loss of $0.14 per share, which was lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.45. This is a decrease from earnings of $1.17 per share in the same quarter last year.

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