This practical checklist is designed to assist our customers and the clients they represent when approaching a litigation funder. It considers the key issues that legal representatives and/or litigants seeking commercial third party funding should consider in advance of approaching a funder and therefore provides an essential reference tool when navigating the task of obtaining third party, commercial litigation funding. It covers how to find a funder that offers the kind of funding they are looking for, what issues might arise during the initial approach and what questions should they ask of the funder, what the litigant can expect to have to provide or do during the negotiations, how to best present a case for funding to a litigation funder, signing a non-disclosure agreement, the time it can take to arrange litigation funding and what steps litigants can take to protect themselves in the meantime, the pros and cons etc of involving a broker in the process, parallel discussions with a number of potential funders and the key issues to keep an eye on when settling a funding agreement.