Management

Richard W. Fields, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Fields has been a partner in several major US law firms, practicing as a corporate plaintiff’s lawyer in the areas of complex litigation and dispute resolution. While in private practice he focused on insurance coverage and contract issues, complex business dispute resolution and human rights issues. Over the course of his career Mr. Fields recovered several billion dollars for numerous Fortune 500 clients.

Described by the Legal Times of Washington, D.C. as "a master negotiator”, he has been named one of “the Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon Magazine, one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” by Chambers, and one of “the world’s leading IP strategists” by Intellectual Asset Management.

Mr. Fields is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. He graduated from Indiana University, B.A., 1977, Phi Beta Kappa, and from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, J.D., 1982, summa cum laude. He is an active member of the New York Bar Association, the Bar of the City of New York, the District of Columbia Bar, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice, a member of the Board of Visitors, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, and Co-Chair of the New York Committee, Human Rights Watch.

Paul C. Sullivan, Senior Vice President

Paul Sullivan (sullivan@juridicacapital.com) is Senior Vice President of Juridica. He has been responsible for the underwriting, negotiation, and structuring of alternative litigation finance investments since 2008. Prior to Juridica, Mr. Sullivan was a partner at a major US law firm practicing as a plaintiff's lawyer representing clients in federal and state courts throughout the country in the areas of complex litigation and dispute resolution. Mr. Sullivan's practice focused primarily on the representation of corporate clients in civil litigation involving a wide variety of contractual disputes and tort liabilities, including intellectual property disputes, primarily on a contingency fee basis.

Mr. Sullivan earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Vermont Law School in 1997, finished second in his law school class, and was Senior Head Notes Editor of the Vermont Law Review. He is also a partner in Fields Sullivan PLLC.

Frederick H. Dulles, Vice President – General Counsel

Mr. Dulles is an American international business lawyer who has worked for a multinational corporation and as a private law firm partner in 30 countries in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His practice has cantered on corporate, commercial, finance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as international commercial arbitration and mediation.

He received an A.B. cum laude (Economics) from Harvard University, (1964) a Juris Doctor from the Columbia University School of Law, (1968) and an MBA (Finance) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, (1968). He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, New York and South Carolina. He is also an independent trustee of the MFS/Sun Life Compass Funds and an Adjunct Professor at The Citadel School of Business Administration, where he teaches negotiation and conflict resolution in the MBA programme.

Directors

Juridica Capital Management’s Board consists of:

• Richard W. Fields, Chairman;
• Richard Battey, Non-executive Director and a member of the Underwriting Committee;
• Peter Radford, Non-executive Director and a member of the Underwriting Committee