Tailor-made litigation funding
EALF covers the full cost of your commercial, private wealth and tax disputes and supports you at every step, alongside your lawyers. We are paid only if you win.
Our approach
Your financial rights have been violated, your opponent is acting in bad faith and every attempt at settlement has failed. Litigation is the only option left, and it is long, costly and draining. EALF takes that burden off you: we fund, we support, and our interests are aligned with yours.
We cover the full cost of the dispute from our own capital:
We agree the objectives with you, then build the strategy with you and your lawyers. We then help you coordinate lawyers, experts and advisers, bringing our experience and network. We know how to work with lawyers and how to use the psychological side of a dispute.
Our fee depends solely on your success. We handle only a very small number of cases at any one time, which guarantees our full involvement. A funder joining the proceedings also sends a strong signal to the other side.
“Don't take it personally. It's just about the money.”An approach driven by effectiveness alone, never by resentment
Practice areas
We act for claimants (companies, investors, families, public bodies) before state courts and arbitral tribunals, and through to settlement negotiations.
Disputes between companies and between shareholders, in France and internationally.
Complex disputes, often within families, involving significant assets and several jurisdictions.
Challenges to levies that breach national or EU law, including at scale.
Track record
Through various structures in France, the UK and Luxembourg, the GAI Group has funded and supported tailor-made disputes for thirty years. We work alongside London's leading litigation funds. Here are a few examples, presented with due respect for client confidentiality:
GAI initiated the challenge to the CSPE, a French electricity levy partly used to fund objectives unrelated to its tax base. The litigation was conducted on a pure success-fee basis for major electricity consumers, including large retail groups, and led to a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
OutcomeCJEU, 25 July 2018, Messer France, C-103/17: the Court upheld taxpayers' right to a partial refund of the levy. The French Conseil d'État applied the ruling on 3 December 2018.
We set up a management pool with one of London's leading litigation funders. Through it, we support leading international brands in food service, retail and luxury watches. These retailers are seeking to recover the multilateral interchange fees imposed by the two card schemes.
Case lawOn 17 June 2020, the UK Supreme Court held that these fees infringed EU competition law (Sainsbury's v Visa / Mastercard, [2020] UKSC 24). In June 2025, the Competition Appeal Tribunal extended that finding to all the fees at issue in claims brought by hundreds of merchants. The proceedings continue on appeal.
We funded and supported a minority investor's claim against a majority shareholder and CEO whose conduct was putting the group at risk. The dispute concerned the enforcement of a shareholder agreement.
OutcomeA settlement in favour of the minority investor and the sale of the group by the majority shareholder for a symbolic one euro.
On behalf of a Swiss alternative investment fund, we funded a civil fraud claim arising from an equity investment in the UK, and helped our client coordinate lawyers, experts, business intelligence and communications.
RoleFull funding and strategic support.
A business separate from EALF, run by a dedicated group subsidiary. As principal funder, GAI turned around and grew one of the UK's leading high-volume claims managers for complaints against pension and investment funds. The business, regulated by the UK financial regulator, supported thousands of clients.
OutcomeTens of millions of pounds in compensation claimed, followed by the sale of the company.
GAI initiated the challenge to the Brussels-Capital Region's city tax on the grounds that it breaches EU rules.
RoleDesign and launch of the litigation.
Past results do not guarantee the outcome of any future dispute. Non-public matters are presented anonymously.
Process
Every request is reviewed in detail by our team, in English or French, in the strictest confidence.
You present your case through the form below or by phone.
We assess the merits, the forum, the likely award, the costs, the duration and the recovery risk.
We set the objectives together. The action plan and the agreement (under Luxembourg or English law) are submitted for your approval.
We fund every adviser, help you coordinate them and keep you informed at each stage.
The case ends in an enforced judgment or award, or a settlement. We are paid only from sums actually recovered.
Selection criteria
Team
Our team draws on a wide network of lawyers, law professors and experts, built over thirty years in advisory work, legal training and litigation funding.
Management · International coordination
A director and head of investments at the GAI Group, he oversees EALF's cases from Luxembourg, working with lawyers, experts and advisers across jurisdictions.
Founder
A former statutory auditor and tax lawyer, he founded the GAI Group. He built and sold several international mid-sized companies in consulting, publishing and legal training, and has been funding litigation for over thirty years.
Senior Advisor · International arbitration
A lawyer by training, he sits as an arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He brings EALF several decades of experience in resolving commercial disputes.
Partner · United Kingdom
Based in London, she has more than fifteen years of experience in financial structuring. She works with EALF on complex private wealth and commercial disputes in the UK.
EALF (European Arbitration and Litigation Funding) is a brand of the GAI Group, a Luxembourg family company founded in 1997 and present in six countries. The group is active in real estate, strategic investments and litigation funding.
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You owe us nothing. EALF alone bears every cost incurred. That is the very principle of litigation funding at our own risk.
No. Lawyers are our partners, not our competitors. We work with your usual counsel or, if you prefer, with lawyers and experts from our network, chosen among the best in their fields.
Litigation funds, mostly UK-based, follow an asset-management model and process large volumes through standardised procedures. EALF invests its own capital, alone or alongside London's leading funds, and works closely on a small number of complex cases that require many advisers to be coordinated.
You do, with your lawyers. Objectives are set jointly and the strategy is submitted for your approval before any commitment. No settlement can be reached without your consent.
Yes. All information you share is treated in strict confidence and used only to assess your request. A non-disclosure agreement can be signed before any detailed exchange.
Depending on the case, the funding agreement is governed by Luxembourg law or English law.
Submit a case
Tell us about the situation in a few lines. We will get back to you promptly, in English or French, for an initial confidential discussion.