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Cisco Takes $140 Million of Capital From Us Against the Future Value of Pork Claims
Burford: Food industry is a hotbed of price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior. Cisco took $140 million from us against the future value of those claims, says Burford. But antitrust cases are freely assignable in the U.S., unlike lots of other kinds of litigation. And so once it became clear that these cases were going to be worth a lot of money, some purchasers of Cisco's clients started to pressure Cisco to assign them the cases.
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