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Industry leader supported. AI enabled.
momentum is a German legal finance firm focused on complex commercial disputes.
The firm was founded by a German lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in dispute resolution and over 10 years in the financing of complex commercial litigation. momentum is supported by an advisory board of recognized industry leaders with deep expertise across legal finance and key areas of law. This extensive experience shapes how we assess cases — and how we deliver results for our clients.
momentum deploys legal AI tools selectively and responsibly to strengthen legal analysis and accelerate due diligence processes — never, however, to replace human judgment.
Team
Felix von Zwehl
Founder & Managing Director
Felix is a German lawyer and litigation finance specialist with more than 15 years experience in dispute resolution and 10 years in funding complex commercial disputes. Prior to founding momentum, he served as General Counsel Germany, Austria and Switzerland of a Chambers & Partners Band 1 ranked litigation funder with global outreach.
During his career, together with his team he funded claims with an aggregate claim value of approximately €1 billion.
He studied law and economics at the Universities of Munich and Bayreuth and holds an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader – Third-Party Funding.
Aditya Mishra
Legal Finance Analyst
Aditya supports momentum in the quantitative assessment and financial modelling of complex disputes. Drawing on his background in Financial Mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and University of Allahabad in India he brings a strong analytical background at the intersection of finance, mathematics, and data-driven decision making. His work focuses in particular on damages quantification, scenario modelling, probability-weighted return analysis, and the financial evaluation of litigation and arbitration investments.
Advisory Board
Dr Arndt Eversberg
Advisory Board Member – Litigation Finance
Arndt is one of the pioneers of litigation finance in Europe with extensive leadership experience in the industry. After initial roles as corporate counsel, he helped build the business of a Munich-based litigation funder from 2000 onwards before subsequently developing Allianz ProzessFinanz into the European market leader as Managing Director. From 2012 to 2021, he led ROLAND ProzessFinanz and oversaw its turnaround, sale and integration into Omni Bridgeway.
Dr Benedikt Quarch
Advisory Board Member – Legal Tech & Consumer Enforcement
Benedikt is an entrepreneur and lawyer as well as one of Germany’s leading experts in legal tech and digital claim enforcement. He is co-founder of RightNow Group, one of the best-known legal tech companies in the German-speaking market specialising in the monetisation and enforcement of consumer claims, and Co-Director of the German Legal Tech Hub. His expertise lies at the intersection of law, technology and scalable claim enforcement models.
Ana Carolina Salomão Queiroz
Advisory Board Member – Capital Structuring & Fundraising
Ana is a legal and finance executive specialising in complex disputes, litigation finance, and legal asset strategy. Previously, as Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Pogust Goodhead, she led the financing strategy for major international disputes. She is now Founder of Montgomery Capital Solutions, advising on capital structuring, fundraising, and investment opportunities linked to large-scale litigation and special situations. Ana holds degrees from the University of São Paulo, the London School of Economics, and INSEAD, and brings experience spanning law, investment management, and alternative capital markets.
Prof Christian Strenger
Advisory Board Member – Corporate Governance & Shareholder Stewardship
Christian is one of Europe’s leading experts in corporate governance and shareholder stewardship. He served as CEO of DWS Investment GmbH, at the time Germany’s largest institutional investor, and played a significant role in the development of international governance standards and institutional investor principles. He is a founding member of the German Corporate Governance Code Commission, a member of the OECD BIAC Corporate Governance Committee and Director of the Corporate Governance Institute at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Prof Dr Andreas Weitbrecht
Advisory Board Member – Competition Law
Andreas is a leading authority on European and international competition law, with approximately 20 years of practice in Brussels. He served as a long-standing partner at leading international law firms, including as Managing Partner of the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins, where he handled complex competition proceedings at both EU and national level. Since 2010, he has held an honorary professorship in German, European, and International Competition and Commercial Law at the University of Trier. His practice combines strategic advice, contentious work, and academic scholarship in competition law.
Our Mission
momentum was founded on the conviction that success in court should not depend on unequal financial resources. By providing capital, strategic support and structuring expertise, momentum enables claimants to pursue complex disputes on equal footing with well-resourced counterparties.
Accountability & Responsibility
We prioritize cases that hold wrongdoing parties accountable and help safeguard the integrity of the markets in which our clients operate.
But we are equally conscious of our own responsibility: we finance only cases with a substantial legal and economic foundation. This discipline not only protects our investors, but also the integrity of the legal system.
Access to Justice
We enable claimants to pursue meritorious claims that would otherwise be impractical due to cost, duration, or power imbalance.
Partnership
Litigation finance only works where there is genuine alignment of interests. Our structures are therefore built around transparency, trust, and long-term collaboration with our clients.
Positive Impact
Impact sits alongside legal, financial, and risk considerations in how we evaluate cases. By safeguarding market integrity, we aim to create lasting impact well beyond the individual case.