For a third straight year, Burford Capital Limited, one of the world’s largest litigation funders, posted record income for the first half of the year.

On Tuesday, the funding firm reported $30.7 million in profits from its litigation investments for the six months of 2015, 64 percent higher than the same period in the previous year. Burford’s overall income of $40.6 million, which includes other litigation-related revenue, was up by nearly half over 2014.