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Burford Capital Ltd

For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 26, 2026.

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FY2025 · Filed Feb 26, 2026

BUR$3.71+3.3%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 9A. Controls and procedures

Disclosure controls and procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, that are designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or furnish under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, our management necessarily is required to apply its judgment. The design of our disclosure controls and procedures also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Thus, in designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance of achieving the desired objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act as of December 31, 2025. Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2025.

Management’s annual report on internal control over financial reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act, is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, a company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:

Pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company

Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company

Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Our management conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. In conducting this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013). Based on such assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2025.

Remediation of previously disclosed material weakness identified as of December 31, 2023

During the year ended December 31, 2023 and as disclosed in the annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023 and the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, our management identified a material weakness relating to a lack of available evidence to demonstrate the precision of management’s review of the controls to determine certain assumptions used in the measurement of the fair value of capital provision assets. Our management, in consultation with the Audit Committee, implemented a remediation plan to strengthen our internal control over financial reporting, which included the following measures:

Adopted new policies relating to the precision of management’s review controls

Implemented new procedures to retain documentary evidence of the operation of that review in accordance with the new policies

Provided training and guidance to the control operators on the new policies and procedures to enhance the evidence of management's review

These remediation measures have been fully implemented as of December 31, 2025, and the operational effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting with respect to these measures has been validated through testing. Based on these measures and the testing and evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, our management concluded that the material weakness has been remediated as of December 31, 2025.

Attestation report of independent registered public accounting firm

KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm that audited our consolidated financial statements included in this 2025 Form 10-K, has issued its attestation report included in this 2025 Form 10-K on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting

Other than with respect to the remediated material weakness referenced above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act, during the year ended December 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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