Why Australia?
JPB Liberty Pty Ltd is incorporated in Australia because it is the best jurisdiction for doing Web 3.0 Litigation Funding of large global class actions.
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Australia is the pioneer and world leader in litigation funding with a clear and light touch regulatory framework
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Litigation Funding for class actions whose signup process is closed before 22 Aug 2020 is specifically exempt from Australian securities regulation
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Token Sales for Litigation Funding purposes fall within this exemption
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Some of the biggest and most established global litigation funders are based in Australia
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Australia has one of the best class action regimes for plaintiffs in the world
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Persons within the defined class are automatically class members unless they opt out
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Cases do not need to be certified by the Court before proceeding
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Only one substantial common issue needs to link class members
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Australian Competition and Consumer Law is plaintiff friendly and broader than many other jurisdictions
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competition law includes black letter law per se breaches that do not require the complex and expensive task of market definition
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Australia is a well respected common law jurisdiction with strong rule of law and connections to other advanced economies.
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This assists in recognition of Australian judgments in key overseas jurisdictions where defendant companies are headquartered
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The CEO of JPBLiberty, Andrew Hamilton, is also a very experienced Australian lawyer and litigator with a rare gift in seeing legal strategies others miss. His 25 year legal record includes:
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winning two underdog vs the system cases in the High Court of Australia
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being rated one of the top in-house lawyers in Australia on numerous occasions
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running a Federal Court class action as solicitor and barrister
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inventing and implementing numerous innovative legal and litigation strategies