The first, and apparently further along of the two, is Lenovo, which has announced that it's entered a "Memorandum of Understanding" with an unnamed "independent third party" to purchase the PC maker.
Thus, I fear the end result of allowing third-party financing to flourish is a slow but steady shift away from the traditional understanding of law as a profession toward a conception of law as just another money-making venture, where the investors inevitably call the shots.