Completion of Share Repurchase Program

Burford Capital Limited

17 March 2026

 

March 17, 2026

Completion of Share Repurchase Program

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford" or the "Company"), the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces the completion of the share repurchase program authorized by its board of directors on February 25, 2026 (the "Share Repurchase Program") in connection with the Company's future obligations under the Burford Capital Deferred Compensation Plan.

Pursuant to the Share Repurchase Program, between March 10 and March 12, 2026, Burford repurchased an aggregate of 475,000 ordinary shares of nil par value ("Ordinary Shares") in open market transactions in the United States for an aggregate consideration of approximately $3.9 million.

Ordinary Shares purchased pursuant to the Share Repurchase Program will be initially held by the Company in treasury. Following the purchase and settlement of these Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued ordinary share capital is 220,667,387, of which 2,244,947 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury and do not have any voting rights. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company, excluding treasury shares, will be 218,422,440 after giving effect to the purchases described above.

This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Burford Capital Limited
For investor and analyst inquiries:
Americas: Josh Wood, Head of Investor Relations - email	[phone]
EMEA & Asia: Rob Bailhache, Head of EMEA & Asia Investor Relations - email	[phone]
For press inquiries:
David Helfenbein, Senior Vice President, Communications - email	[phone]
Deutsche Numis - NOMAD and Joint Broker	[phone]
Duncan Monteith
Charlie Farquhar
BofA Securities - Joint Broker	[phone]
Peter Luck
David Lloyd
Jefferies International Limited - Joint Broker	[phone]
Graham Davidson
James Umbers
Berenberg - Joint Broker	[phone]
Toby Flaux
James Thompson

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR) and works with companies and law firms around the world from its global network of offices.

For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other securities of Burford.

This press release does not constitute an offer of any Burford private fund. Burford Capital Investment Management LLC, which acts as the fund manager of all Burford private funds, is registered as an investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The information provided in this press release is for informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The information contained in this press release is not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities (including interests or shares in any of Burford private funds). Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by means of a final confidential private placement memorandum and other offering documents.

Forward-looking statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provided for under these sections. In some cases, words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "guidance", "intend", "may", "plan", "potential", "predict", "projected", "should" or "will", or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although Burford believes that the assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future results and events reflected in forward-looking statements have a reasonable basis and are expressed in good faith, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause Burford's actual results and events to differ materially from (and be more negative than) future results and events expressed, projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause future results and events to differ include, among others, those discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Burford's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2026. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements contained in the periodic and current reports that Burford files with or furnishes to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Many of these factors are beyond Burford's ability to control or predict, and new factors emerge from time to time. Furthermore, Burford cannot assess the impact of each such factor on its business or the extent to which any factor or combination of factors may cause actual results and events to be materially different from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on Burford's forward-looking statements.

All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Burford or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and, except as required by applicable law, Burford undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

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