Yasmin MOHAMMAD

Yasmin Mohammad is Director at Fortress Investment Group, focusing globally on international arbitration related investments and heads the Paris office. She provides various financing options in the context of international arbitrations and litigations to claimants and defendants or their lawyers, in single case scenarios or portfolios. She also provides monetization solutions for arbitration awards. Yasmin joined the legal assets, legal finance or otherwise called third party funding industry nearly a decade ago and participated in its fast and multitiered evolution as it has branched out into various increasingly complex financial instruments.

Prior to joining the legal finance industry and becoming an investment professional, Yasmin was for almost a decade an international arbitration practitioner advising private, institutional or sovereign clients in the context of commercial and investment international arbitration proceedings within the international arbitration team of a leading international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Yasmin regularly teaches in various universities on the topics of international arbitration and legal finance and frequently speaks at industry conferences and contributes to leading publications and journals.

In 2018, with the support and invaluable help of friends and colleagues, Yasmin Mohammad co-founded Paris Arbitration Week and became its first elected President to its Board and Organizing Committee.