Burford Capital PLC Final Results/Accession of Burford Cap Finance LLC (4504K)

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Burford Capital PLC

10 April 2018

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10 April 2018

BURFORD CAPITAL PLC

6.5% STERLING BONDS DUE 2022

6.125% STERLING BONDS DUE 2024

5% STERLING BONDS DUE 2026

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2017

Burford Capital PLC (the "Issuer"), the special purpose financing vehicle created to issue Burford's retail bonds and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Burford Capital Limited ("Burford" or "the Company"), announces that the Burford Capital PLC Annual Report and Financial Statements 2017 have today been made available on the Company's website (www.burfordcapital.com/investors/bonds/). This annual report relates only to the Issuer.

Burford's 2017 results were issued on 14 March 2018. A copy of that announcement can also be found on the Burford website (http://www.burfordcapital.com/investors/).

Accession of Burford Capital Finance LLC

Today, the Issuer announces that Burford Capital Finance LLC has acceded as a Subsidiary Guarantor for the purposes of the Issuer's:

   --     GBP90,000,000 6.50 per. cent guaranteed bonds due 19 August 2022, issued on 19 August 2014; 
   --     GBP100,000,000 6.125 per. cent guaranteed bonds due 2024, issued on 26 April 2016; and 
   --     GBP175,000,000 5.0 per. cent guaranteed bonds due 2026, issued on 1 June 2017. 

The accession is effective as of today's date.

For further information, please contact:

 
   Burford Capital 
   Elizabeth O'Connell, CFA, Chief          +1 212 235 
    Financial Officer                        6825 
 
   Neustria Partners - Financial            [phone] 
    Communications for Burford Capital       2580 
   Robert Bailhache [email] 
   Charles Gorman [email] 
   Nick Henderson [email] 
 

About Burford Capital PLC

Burford Capital PLC is a special purpose financing vehicle created to issue Burford's 2014, 2016 and 2017 Sterling denominated retail bonds and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Burford Capital Limited.

About Burford Capital Finance LLC

Burford Capital Finance LLC is a special purpose financing vehicle created to issue Burford's 2018, US Dollar denominated retail bonds and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Burford Capital Limited.

About Burford

Burford is a leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. Burford's businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery, and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford's equity and debt securities are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with law firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago and Singapore.

For more information about Burford, visit www.burfordcapital.com

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