Corey joined Therium’s U.S. team in July 2022.  Before joining Therium, Corey spent more than five years as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he worked on a broad range of commercial matters, including corporate, fiduciary duty, securities, breach of contract, antitrust/competition and bankruptcy litigation for clients in the financial services, media, technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, among others.

Corey also previously clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Before his clerkships, Corey served as a litigation associate at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in International Relations and Japanese.

Josh joined Therium in 2022 and helps lead its business in the United States.  He is an experienced litigator with nearly a decade of experience counseling clients in pre-litigation disputes and risk assessment and litigating cases and arbitration matters regarding corporate governance issues, mergers and acquisitions, founder disputes, LLC and partnership matters, and other complex commercial and securities litigation matters.  Josh also has substantial experience handling internal investigations and counseling public companies and investment firms in connection with SEC and white-collar criminal matters.

Before joining Therium, Josh was a litigator at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Sidley Austin LLP.  He previously clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Josh speaks and writes on topics related to securities, corporate governance, and commercial litigation.  He also serves on the International Legal Finance Association (ILFA) U.S. Regional Committee and the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) Advisory Council.

Josh received his B.A. cum laude from Amherst College and his J.D. magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Law Review.

Charlie joined the Investment Team at Therium in 2022. Having completed his training contract at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP, Charlie moved to Michelmores LLP as a qualified solicitor where his practice encompassed a broad range of commercial litigation. His work has spanned complex, high value commercial contract claims; group actions; civil fraud and asset tracing; trusts and probate disputes; shareholder disputes; professional negligence; property litigation; joint venture breakdown; and multi-jurisdictional disputes and enforcement.

Charlie received a First-Class Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and an MPhil in Philosophy at Darwin College, University of Cambridge where his research interest focused on counterfactual analyses before then commencing his GDL and LPC at the University of Law.

Chris joined Therium in 2022 after nine years as a solicitor at Slaughter and May. As a senior associate in the Disputes and Investigations Group, Chris’ practice focused on resolving large-scale, complex and often multi-jurisdictional disputes for large corporates, including a number of FTSE 100 companies, across a wide range of industry sectors. Chris’ experience spans a variety of litigation in the High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal, including substantial group actions, as well as international arbitrations, regulatory investigations and corporate criminal matters. Notable cases included acting for Standard Life Aberdeen (now abrdn) in a successful arbitration against Lloyds Banking Group and defending BHP in one of the largest group actions in English legal history. Chris also co-authored the UK chapter of the Banking Litigation Law Review 2021.

Chris obtained a First Class Honours degree in History from King’s College London and a Master’s degree with Distinction in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Chris later completed a Graduate LLB by self-study at the University of London, where he was awarded the Brigid M Cotter Prize in Laws, before completing the LPC at BPP Law School. Chris has also since qualified as a solicitor advocate.

Fred joined Therium in 2022 after completing an MBA at Imperial College Business School. Fred was previously an investment officer at an international litigation funder where his work focused on competition and securities litigation across a range of jurisdictions.

Fred trained and qualified as a solicitor advocate at Forsters LLP where his work included advising the beneficiary of a substantial trust with assets across multiple jurisdictions and advising a group of over 200 retail investors concerning losses suffered in a fraudulent investment scheme. Fred’s experience includes civil fraud, property, professional negligence, and shareholder disputes. He has worked on multiple group claims and has extensive experience of funded litigation acting for both corporate and individual clients.

Fred studied Ancient History and Egyptology at University College London before completing both the GDL and LPC at the University of Law. Fred most recently completed an MBA at Imperial College Business School and is studying mandarin in his spare time.

Ben joined Therium in the Investment Team in London in 2020, following more than 15 years in Investment Banking. Ben was most recently Head of Benelux and Nordics, within the Financial Institutions Debt Capital Markets advisory group, at UBS Investment Bank.  In this role, he acted for some of the largest Banks and Insurance companies in Northern Europe, advising on liability optimisation.  Ben has experience in originating, structuring and executing a number of high profile and complex credit instruments across multiple international jurisdictions, spanning Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

Ben achieved a First Class Degree (with Honours) in Economics from the University of Durham.  He has also completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP Law School, London, where he was awarded a Distinction.  Ben’s role at Therium has involved the origination, diligence and management of single case investments but has been focused on the more structured exposures including law firm lending facilities and portfolio investments as well as investments requiring quantitative and financial analysis.

Henrik leads Therium’s business in the Nordics.  He has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant in Scandinavia, having worked for firms including PA Consulting Group, Bain & Company and Pareto Group.  Henrik holds a MSc in economics and business administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and London School of Economics.

Together with Henrik Jensen, Henrik Berg was a pioneer of litigation funding in Norway and elsewhere in Scandinavia, successfully funding the first case in the Norwegian Courts to be backed by litigation finance.  They have originated and funded a series of litigation and arbitration cases subsequently across Scandinavia, including working on Therium’s funding of the Danske Bank litigation in Denmark.

Louise joined Therium in January 2018 in the newly established Melbourne office.  Prior to joining Therium, Louise worked at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), managing consumer and competition law investigations. 

As a Director, Louise led a wide variety of ACCC investigations into misconduct in various industry sectors, including as examples the telecommunications, waste management and retail & consumer goods sectors.  She has advised at a high level on enforcement strategy and case formulation in complex matters, and managed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia.  

Louise has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) from Monash University.

Henrik is Chairman of Therium Nordic AS. He is an experienced lawyer and has been admitted to the Supreme Court of Norway. Henrik founded and is an active owner of two law firms (Legalis and Legal24) and a legal insurance company (Legal Insurance Group) in Norway and Scandinavia.  Henrik completed his first degree in law in Oslo, followed by a Master of Law at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, with a thesis in EU copyright-law.

Henrick was involved in the assessment of the first funded case in Norway, the Atlant Case, which was won and not appealed in the City Court of Oslo in 2018. He is a board member of Legal Protection International and Admittance to the Supreme Court of Norway.