Litigation funder LegalPay expands India play, commits Rs 100 crore to commercial disputes

Mumbai: Litigation funder LegalPay plans to invest Rs 100 crore over the next 18 months to expand its operations in India, targeting 20 to 30 commercial and insolvency-related cases.

The company said individual funding commitments will range from two crore to five crore rupees.

“What we see repeatedly is not a lack of legal merit, but a lack of financial staying power,” said Kundan Shahi, founder of LegalPay. “Strong claims are routinely diluted, delayed, or dropped altogether because litigation in India is long, expensive, and uncertain.”


The company said it follows a selective investment framework, conducting legal and financial due diligence before funding cases.

The company provides structured, non-recourse litigation funding to claimants and law firms, enabling them to pursue meritorious cases without bearing the burden of upfront legal costs.

Funding is repayable only upon a successful outcome, allowing claimants to manage risk while preserving capital and operational focus.

“Our objective is to remove that pressure. If a claim is legally sound and commercially viable, access to capital should not be the reason it fails,” said Shahi.

With Indian businesses estimated to spend over Rs 60,000 crore annually on legal and regulatory matters, litigation finance is increasingly emerging as a critical risk-management tool.

Venture Capital (VC) firms 9Unicorns and Let’sVenture-backed LegalPay is a third-party litigation finance platform that helps entities ease the financial burden of litigation cases, such as shareholder and intellectual property rights-related disputes, domestic and international arbitrations, and other time-bound cases.