Vice President, Legal Assets & Litigation Investing

Location: New York, United States of America

Base salary: $225,000–$250,000 per year, plus competitive bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a credit manager within Brookfield’s credit platform, investing across credit, equity, and real estate with an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach.

What you will do

• Source, underwrite, and manage investments whose value depends on litigation, bankruptcy proceedings, insolvency, judgments, awards, government claims, or other legal processes.
• Assess merits, damages, timing, collectability, settlement value, and recommended buy prices across litigation-driven securities, claims funding, bankruptcy assets, awards, judgments, and law firm or settlement finance.
• Build valuation frameworks using probability-weighted scenarios, duration, downside protection, and expected returns; present recommendations to the portfolio manager and investment committee.
• Negotiate and draft claim purchase, funding, DIP, law firm credit, fee, and priority agreements, and manage transactions through closing.
• Monitor dockets, rulings, and case developments; update valuations and position sizing as cases progress.
• Source opportunities through law firms, claims brokers, litigation funders, and restructuring professionals, and manage outside counsel, experts, and other advisors.

Requirements

• At least five years of litigation experience with a leading law firm or litigation/appellate boutique, focused on plaintiffs’-side civil representations involving large damages claims.
• Completion of at least one judicial clerkship; a federal clerkship is preferred.
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and admission in good standing to at least one U.S. state bar.
• Sound legal judgment, including the ability to assess likely case outcomes, timelines, and value.
• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills with experience handling complex agreements.
• Ability to explain complex legal issues clearly and concisely to investment professionals.
• Comfort with quantitative analysis, including building simple valuation models.
• Ability to manage multiple deals and cases simultaneously on a lean, fast-moving team.
• Collaborative, self-directed, and commercially minded approach with a demonstrated interest in investing and value, risk, and return analysis.

Nice to have

• Exposure to antitrust, bankruptcy, or bet-the-company commercial disputes.
• Experience at a litigation funder or legal-assets investor after law firm practice.
• Experience with contingency-fee matters, damages analysis, class actions, or opt-out claims.
• Familiarity with Chapter 11 proceedings, claims trading, and creditor rights.
• A second judicial clerkship.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, curious, and inclusive environment that values diversity of thought.
• Training and career development opportunities.
• Competitive bonus and benefits package.
• Support for local communities through philanthropic initiatives.
• Equal opportunity employment policy covering hiring, advancement, compensation, and employment conditions.