A private house of institutional legal capital.

Hudson Litigation Capital is a private house of institutional funding for complex legal assets. It was founded on the view that consequential matters are best supported by capital that is patient, discreet, and doctrinally consistent. The house engages by written inquiry, retains formal information barriers between books, and holds counsel and claimant in equal and separate regard.

Those who sign the letters.

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  Bill Hudson

  Founder & Managing Principal

  Bill founded Hudson Litigation Capital on the view that consequential matters are best supported by capital that is patient, discreet, and doctrinally consistent. He sets the house's underwriting temperament and chairs matters at final review. His seat is not a deal seat: it governs the standard by which the firm declines, and the standard by which it commits. He holds no authority to override the Investment Committee, whose funding authority is final and non-delegable.

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  Eleanor V. Hudson

  Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  Eleanor co-founded Hudson Litigation Capital on the conviction that litigation finance had failed to develop the structural rigour of institutional capital markets, and that the gap was the opportunity. Before HLC, she spent fourteen years at alternative asset management firms focused on legal and regulatory risk, including senior roles in the disputes finance divisions of two global investment platforms. She designed the firm's constitutional governance framework, its approach to transaction structuring and capital discipline, and the Non-Interference Doctrine, before a single dollar of capital was committed. She holds authority over the firm's governance, capital doctrine, and institutional relationships. She does not manage individual investments. She manages the architecture that governs them.

The named bench of the house.

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  Jonathan Adeyemi

  Chief Underwriting Officer · Chair, Investment Committee

  Jonathan brings experience in structured credit asset management and senior underwriting at a leading European litigation finance platform. He owns the underwriting framework of the firm: the standard a matter must meet before it is considered at all, the independent testing of quantum, and the assessment of jurisdictional collectability. Funding authority is final and non-delegable, and no capital is deployed without it.

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  Nathaniel Forsythe

  General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

  Nathaniel advises on the architecture and execution of funding agreements across common law and civil law jurisdictions, with particular focus on champerty analysis in multi-jurisdictional structures, counterparty conflicts management, and enforcement of HLC's Non-Interference Doctrine. He oversees regulatory compliance, privilege protocols, and post-funding confidentiality obligations across the active portfolio. He chairs the Conflicts and Compliance Subcommittee and signs every facility before deployment.

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  Dimitri Papadakis

  Director of Claims Analytics & Enforcement Intelligence

  Dimitri owns the analytical production behind every Investment Committee memorandum: quantum reconciliation, analysis distinguishing recoveries available to a funded transaction from those already committed elsewhere, and the evidentiary work behind the enforceability assessment. He assesses defendant solvency, jurisdictional reachability and asset traceability, and tests budget and timetable against adverse outcomes. Where the Chief Underwriting Officer sets the framework, this seat produces the figures to which the framework is applied. His desk is the firm's institutional memory on recovery.

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  Serena Castellano-Wright

  Director of Portfolio Management & Monitoring

  Serena oversees the firm's committed book from execution to conclusion: investment governance after execution, covenant and milestone tracking, drawdown administration direct to counsel and approved vendors, portfolio risk management, and the periodic valuation process. She reports concentration and duration exposure to the Investment Committee and escalates any matter departing from its funded timetable. HLC capital is actively stewarded, never passively held.

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  Joseph Villalba

  Head of Commercial Strategy & Capital Solutions

  Joseph leads HLC's commercial strategy architecture and the design of bespoke capital solutions for claimants, law firms, and institutional counterparties. He is responsible for fixing the applicable solution, its transaction structure and its capital position across the firm's dispute finance, claims and recovery, portfolio and law firm capital, and post-outcome capital families, together with pricing and counterparty relationships. His seat faces the origination market: identifying where capital can be deployed, how it should be structured, and on what terms.

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  Dean Jason-Smith

  Director of Business Development

  Dean leads HLC's inbound and outbound business development across law firms, corporate legal departments, and claimant-side counsel. He is responsible for pipeline origination, professional network development, and first-pass matter assessment before Investment Committee screening. Consistent with the firm's mandate, HLC does not act as a referral agent or broker for legal services and does not recommend counsel. His seat is the relationship layer between the market and the Investment Committee, ensuring that matters reaching the Committee meet mandate before consuming underwriting resource.

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  James Hennager

  Business Development Manager

  James supports HLC's business development function across origination, relationship management, and pipeline coordination. He works directly with Dean Jason-Smith on matter sourcing from law firms and claimant-side counsel, managing the pre-screening workflow and ensuring timely written communication across the intake process. He is the first point of written contact for many incoming inquiries and the continuity layer between senior touchpoints.

The house

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  Principals & Senior Officers

  This page

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  Our Approach

  Doctrine, mandate and exclusions.

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  Governance

  The provisions that bind the firm.

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  Jurisdictional Reach

  Where matters are considered.

• Our Approach→

  The doctrine these officers apply.

• Governance→

  The provisions that bind them.

• Correspondence→

  Reach the firm in writing.