Investment Manager – European Group Claims Specialist

Investment Manager – European Group Claims Specialist

📍 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
📅 Job Type: Permanent / Full-Time
🏢 Company: Omni Bridgeway

About Omni Bridgeway:

Omni Bridgeway is the world’s leading legal finance provider and legal asset manager, in operation for over 40 years.

We have a highly experienced team of 160+ specialists in law, intelligence, and finance with expertise in civil and common law legal and recovery systems. We work with public-interest foundations, individual claimants, law firms, corporations, sovereigns, and multilateral institutions to provide access to justice and effective legal recoveries.

Our team assesses investments and enforcement opportunities arising in nearly every region, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the UK and the US. We have funded hundreds of cases to completion, offering disputes financing and judgment enforcement capability and experience that is unsurpassed in the industry.

Our European portfolio of investments in group claims is fast expanding, including high-profile and public-impact claims in the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland and elsewhere.  This has created a strong opportunity for an experienced group claims lawyer or legal finance professional, interested in joining a world-leading, innovative team in an exciting and developing space.

We are currently looking to add specialist group-claims Investment Managers to our team, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and welcome candidates who meet our criteria to apply. For more information, see our job overview and criteria below and visit our website at www.omnibridgeway.com.

About the Role:

The role of Investment Manager is to originate, assess, and manage litigation assets. Responsible for conducting comprehensive case assessments, the Investment Manager collaborates with legal experts to gauge the merits and risks of each case, conducting, with our Pricing and Structuring team, financial analyses to determine economic viability and potential returns on investment.

The Investment Manager is also responsible for negotiating and structuring funding agreements and ensuring compliance with investment budgets. This role demands continuous monitoring of legal landscapes, collaborative efforts with legal teams, and effective communication of investment decisions to internal and external stakeholders, all aimed at optimizing the profitability and risk profile of the funder’s investments.

In this role, the Investment Manager will continue to develop an understanding of legal processes, financial analysis, and risk management within the context of litigation funding and the ability to collaborate closely with legal teams, financial analysts and other internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

We are looking for candidates who have:

• PQE 5 – 10 (or more) years’ experience as a legal practitioner and/or in litigation finance, specialised in European group claims.  Deep knowledge and experience with the WAMCA regime or European equivalents is a strong advantage;
• The ability to be self-motivated, outcome focused, influential, robust, commercial, passionate, and able to work effectively as part of a team;
• A deep understanding of legal principles, litigation processes, and risk factors associated with litigation and/or litigation funding;
• A strategic and commercial mindset, with the ability to think creatively and develop innovative investment strategies;
• Earned respect in their field (legal and/or litigation funding);
• An ability to negotiate, including in respect of funding terms and variations;
• An ability to identify and evaluate risk;
• Computer literacy with the ability to function in an organisation that relies predominantly on electronic systems;
• Master of Laws or higher legal qualification; and
• Financial training (preferred.)

Why Join Omni Bridgeway?

🌍 Be part of a global leader in litigation finance and legal innovation
💡 Collaborate with top-tier professionals and external consultants
🏆 A dynamic, fast-moving environment that values expertise and initiative

Ready to make an impact? Apply today by submitting your CV and cover letter.

Omni Bridgeway is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive workplace.