The advantages of litigation funding from a lawyer’s perspective

Dr. Warlich is responsible for the division „litigation funding“ at FORIS Group.

She studied law and European business law at the University of Würzburg and earned her PhD with a thesis in inheritance law at the University of Bayreuth. She was admitted to the bar in 2007, is a certified specialist for tax law and has joined FORIS AG as in-house counsel in 2020.

Before joining FORIS AG, Dr. Warlich worked in a law firm specialized on inheritance law and banking and capital markets law for more than a decade. She has represented clients in numerous banking and capital markets lawsuits. Further, she has advised clients in matters in corporate, commercial and inheritance law matters and has advised them in tax planning and tax investigation cases. At FORIS AG, Dr. Warlich is responsible for the firm’s dispute funding practice. Insofar, she manages all related litigation and arbitration.

Edgar Stieglitz studied law at the University of Münster. He was called to the bar in 2001 and has worked as a lawyer for FORIS AG since 2006.

Edgar Stieglitz has extensive knowledge of practising law and is adept in matters of strategies and tactics in civil suits from his many years of experience as a lawyer.

He is a member of the German Bar Association (DAV), Cologne Bar Association (KAV), the DAV’s consortium on labour law, the German Society for Construction Law, GRUR, and the German Federal Association of Company Lawyers (BUJ).

Mr. Christian Vaaßen studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Even before his legal clerkship, Mr. Vaaßen focused on the area of inheritance law. He worked for several years in the inheritance law team of a Bonn law firm, where he was able to gain experience in inheritance law and other civil law disputes.

Christian Vaaßen was admitted to the bar in 2022, having previously worked as a legal assistant at FORIS AG.

In the litigation finance team at FORIS AG, Christian Vaaßen handles disputes in general civil law, in particular in inheritance and medical malpractice law.

At FORIS, Olomon Ljumani focuses on insolvency and corporate law litigation.

Before joining FORIS, Olomon was responsible for the legal affairs of the German subsidiary of an American med-tech company as in-house counsel. Prior to that, Olomon worked as a lawyer in a law firm specialising in insolvency law and, in addition to independently administering corporate insolvencies, was primarily entrusted with legal representation and litigation in insolvency and commercial law matters.

Olomon studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, specialising in commercial law. He completed his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Münster and was admitted to the bar in 2019.

Olomon regularly publishes on insolvency and procedural law topics in law journals (such as ZInsO and EWiR) and is co-author of a standard textbook on insolvency tax law.

He is also a lecturer in Civil Law at the University of Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia (HSPV NRW).

In the litigation and arbitration funding team of FORIS AG, Valentin Bogner focuses on disputes in commercial and corporate law as well as general civil and commercial law.

Valentin studied law at the University of Trier, the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Université Paris-Sud. During his work as a lawyer in one of the leading auditing firms advising medium-sized companies, Valentin gained valuable experience in the field of commercial and corporate law as well as general business law.

Valentin has been admitted to the bar since 2022 and has been an in-house lawyer at FORIS AG since 2025.

Ruth Marie Mosch specializes in national and international litigation and arbitration and has been working at FORIS AG since 2025.

Previously Ms. Mosch worked for many years as an in-house counsel for litigation & arbitration, compliance and contract law at a global player based in Cologne. Prior to that, she was self-employed in her own law firm. From 2012 to 2015, she worked for the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). She was admitted to the bar in 2012.

Ruth Marie Mosch studied law in Freiburg i.Br., Grenoble and Bonn. She completed her Master’s degree in International Dispute Settlement (LL.M.) at the University of Geneva.

She speaks German, English and French.

Stefanie Jacob primarily works in the field of insolvency and commercial law. In addition, she is the contact person for inheritance disputes and litigations in medical malpractice law.

Since 2015 and before joining FORIS AG, Stefanie Jacob worked for two renowned law firms in the field of insolvency administration. She was responsible for the winding up of corporate insolvencies independently, which enabled her to gain extensive expertise. In addition, Stefanie Jacob gained experience at a “boutique” law firm in Düsseldorf specializing in tax and inheritance law.

Stefanie Jacob studied at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and completed her legal clerkship in the judicial district of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf. She was admitted to the bar in 2013.