About Hello Justice.

There is a gap between the rights the law recognises and those people actually manage to enforce. In France, it stems first from the cost and length of proceedings. A high‑stakes dispute runs from €30,000 to more than €300,000 in fees and costs, over two to four years, sometimes longer. A litigant with a well‑founded claim may therefore give up along the way, or settle at a loss, because the other side can afford to wait. The case is then decided less on its merits than on each side’s finances.

The situations are familiar: the head of a small business whose invoices a large group does not pay, the individual in a dispute with their bank, the company whose business partner ended a contract overnight. The law is often on their side. They are much less likely to have the means to hold out until judgment.

We created Hello Justice to narrow that gap. We pay the fees of our clients’ lawyers. If the case is lost, they owe us nothing. If it is won, we take a commission on the sums recovered, at a rate set before any commitment. We are therefore paid that commission only if our client is paid, which forces us to be selective and aligns our interests with theirs.

Our role stops there. Hello Justice is not a law firm and runs no proceedings. The lawyer sets the strategy, drafts the court documents and argues the case. The client decides with them whether to settle or to go on. The tripartite agreement signed by the client, their lawyer and Hello Justice sets out this division of roles and guarantees the lawyer’s independence.

Litigation funding has been practised for years in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, by specialist firms that the courts of those countries know well. In France, the Versailles Court of Appeal recognised this agreement in 2006, and the Act of 30 April 2025 refers to it expressly for group actions. The framework exists. Large international funders focus on disputes worth several million euros and leave aside those worth between €100,000 and €1 million. There was no French company dedicated to mid‑market litigation funding. Hello Justice is the first.

We fund a case only after it has been analysed by a partner lawyer who specialises in the area of law concerned, and then by our team. The client receives a reasoned opinion, favourable or not. We sometimes decline, and we say so plainly: funding a weak claim does no one any good. Each agreement then sets out who pays what and who receives what, and we honour it until the end of the proceedings, however long they last.

Hello Justice was founded in Lyon and incubated at the Lyon Bar. It is a winner of the Bar’s 2024 Innovation Competition and is backed by Bpifrance under the France 2030 plan. We work with partner law firms, for individuals and companies alike.

Litigation funding does not correct every inequality before the courts. It addresses one of them, the cost of going to court, for those whose claim is well founded and who would not otherwise see their case through. That is what we work towards.