Our Team
Through over fifty years’ combined experience in finance and law product innovations, Juridica’s principals have developed an extensive network of leading law, legal ethics, finance and consulting experts and scholars around the globe. Juridica calls on this network to assist in case and risk analysis, financial modeling and financial product design.
Management
Richard W. Fields (info@juridica.co.uk) 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” byIntellectual 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.
Timothy D. Scrantom (scrantom@juridica.co.uk) Mr. Scranton is an American lawyer and an English barrister-at-law (Gray’s Inn – currently non-practicing). A significant portion of his private practice centred on disputes, audits and investigations in international finance. He also acted as a strategic consultant on legal issues in complex multi-jurisdiction litigation and business migrations. In the course of his career in private practice, Mr. Scranton represented multinational corporations and governments in connection with legislation, disputes and public policy issues. For twelve years he taught international business law, published numerous journal articles and lectured around the world, founding the Institute for Transnational Dispute Resolution at Gray’s Inn in 2002.
He received a juris doctor (cum laude) from the University of Georgia (1983) and an LLM in International Business Law from the London School of Economics (1984). In the United States, he is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Georgia and South Carolina. Mr. Scrantom is a barrister before the courts of the Eastern Caribbean States.
Legal Advisors
Paul Sullivan (sullivan@fsuslaw.com) is Assistant General Counsel of Juridica. He has been 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 has focused primarily on the representation of corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage cases. He also has represented corporations in civil litigation involving a wide variety of other contractual disputes and tort liabilities, including intellectual property disputes. Mr. Sullivan earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Vermont Law School in 1997 and was Senior Head Notes Editor of the Vermont Law Review. He is also a partner in Fields Scrantom Sullivan PLLC.
Nathan M. Crystal is Independent Ethics Counsel to Juridica. He recently stepped down as the Class of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility and Contract Law at University of South Carolina, where he taught law for 30 years. After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he received his J.D. degree from Emory, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the law review, and an LLM from Harvard, where he was a Teaching Fellow and Director of the Legal Methods Program.
Professor Crystal teaches and writes principally in the areas of contract law and professional responsibility. He has published five books, three on professional ethics and two on contract law. His two casebooks on contracts and professional ethics are widely used in law schools throughout the country. Professor Crystal also publishes frequently in major law reviews and has presented more than 100 lectures and papers to professional organizations and academic audiences throughout the world.
Directors
Richard W. Fields (info@juridica.co.uk) is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Juridica Capital Management Limited.
Timothy D. Scrantom (scrantom@juridica.co.uk) is an executive member of the Board of Directors of Juridica Capital Management Limited.
Richard Battey (battey@juridica.co.uk) is a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Juridica Capital Management and a member of the Underwriting Committee.
Peter Radford (radford@juridica.co.uk) is a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Juridica Capital Management and a member of the Underwriting Committee. Mr. Radford is also the Compliance Officer of Juridica.
Andrew Lindsay (lindsay@juridica.co.uk) is a non-executive alternate member of the Board of Directors of Juridica Capital Management.