John J. Hanley

Adjunct Professor of Law

John J. Hanley is a Partner at Invenio LLP in New York, where his practice focuses on litigation funding, claim monetization, and complex structured finance transactions. He advises litigation funders, claimants, law firms, investment funds, and other financial institutions on the structuring, negotiation, and execution of funding arrangements. His work includes prepaid forward purchase agreements, intercreditor and priorities agreements, and proceeds waterfalls in portfolio, multijurisdictional, and insolvency matters. He also represents lenders and borrowers in secured lending and receivables financings. John began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.

John has written on true sales in funding agreements, distribution waterfalls, UCC priority and perfection, and the New York Consumer Litigation Funding Act. He has been quoted in Bloomberg Law on funder conduct and has presented CLE programs on litigation finance and its ethical issues. Since 2020 he has served as an Adjunct Professor at DeSales University, where he teaches Legal Environment for Business. He also serves on the board of the Fordham Law Alumni Association.

John received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was on the Dean’s List, served as Associate Articles Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, and competed in the William Hughes Mulligan Moot Court Competition. He received his B.A. in Government, summa cum laude, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). In Spring 2027 he will teach Litigation Finance: Structuring, Credit, and Law Firm Economics at Fordham Law.