Matthew Hudson is an entrepreneurial lawyer, venture capitalist and builder of businesses.Matthew Hudson is the Founder of Private Markets Associates.Private Markets Associates provides strategic and structuring consultancy, as well as project management and on-going operational leadership. It works on new fund managers, new funds, new investment strategies, new platform companies, as well as M&A, financings and due diligence, AuM growth, change and opportunity, and across the private markets funds and deals universe.Matthew has over 30 years of Private Markets experience, as a lawyer, a fund manager and as an investor. Matthew is a well-known industry figure, regularly speaks on new developments concerning the Alternative Assets industries, has helped create, structure or spin-out many new fund managers and funds, and has authored the leading texts of "Fund Managers: The Complete Guide" and “Funds: Private Equity, Hedge and All Core Structures”, both published by Wiley Finance.Matthew has helped build five Private Markets advisory firms:• Helped found the Private Equity Group of law firm SJ Berwin, that grew into the largest PE legal team in Europe• Re-established and led the O’Melveny & Myers London office, the giant US west coast law firm, to build one of the first trans-Atlantic finance-led law firms• Created the London office for Proskauer, a leading east coast US firm• Founded MJ Hudson, providing advisory, infrastructure and analytics to private markets, and built from scratch through IPO• Founded Private Markets AssociatesFurther, Matthew has also worked in four Private Markets Investment houses:• Leveraged buy-outs for a group built within CSFB• Founded Far Blue Ventures, the Venture Capital house, backing IP spin-outs from universities• Co-founded Tower Gate Capital, making small cap investments• Coller Capital, the global Secondaries firmAs part of investment groups, he has helped build a number of software, financial and other services businesses.As part of advisory firms he has worked with many of the larger private equity, venture capital, SWF or family office groups.