Mark Spiteri

Finance & Commercial Director

London

Profile

Mark is a co-founder of Woodsford and currently serves on the board as Commercial & Finance Director, leading a team which is responsible for finance and accounting, tax, treasury, business planning, risk management and financial modelling. He has experience of funding internationally including the UK, Australia and the US.

Mark is an industry leader in structuring investments to align the interests of the various stakeholders in the litigation process and he has deep knowledge of litigation finance both as an investment class and from an accounting perspective, being responsible for overseeing and implementing the group’s accounting standards under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) both in the UK and Australia.

Experience

Mark has had a varied career across corporate finance, asset management, real estate and venture capital having previously worked both in management consultancy and corporate finance at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and more recently as Managing Director of Woodsford Consulting, a family office, based in London, where he founded a number of businesses in the finance and real estate sector. He currently sits on a number of boards internationally, including Woodsford TradeBridge, an e-commerce finance house, and Dom Development SA, Poland’s largest listed residential developer.

Mark is a graduate in economics from the London School of Economics and he is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Industry Recognitions

Mark has written articles on litigation finance, including for Financial Management Magazine (published by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants) and has also contributed a chapter to the first and second edition of The Law and Business of Litigation Finance (published by Bloomsbury Professional).

Mark was recognised as a leading expert in Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal): Thought Leaders Third Party Funding 2024 and 2025.

“Distinguished by its permanent capital structure, the ‘outstanding’ Woodsford Litigation Funding has established clear market dominance in the UK CAT opt-out regime, achieving 5 of 6 settlements to date, and leads the non-US securities litigation market globally with a portfolio spanning multiple jurisdictions. Praised for its ‘very impressive, experienced and knowledgeable team’, the firm’s institutional client base includes top-tier asset managers, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds. Key individuals include CEO Steven Friel; Chief Investment Officer Charlie Morris; co-founder and GC Jonathan Barnes; and finance and commercial director Mark Spiteri.”

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