London-based litigation funder Therium Capital Management will enter Australia on Jan. 1 with an office in Melbourne.

The Australian operation will be headed by Simon Dluzniak, who was most recently a director at Australia-based Kent Street Consulting, a brokerage firm helping litigation funders source and assess cases. Previously, he was an investment manager at litigation funders IMF Bentham Ltd. in Melbourne and Bentham Europe Ltd. in London.