Raymond van Hulst

Raymond van Hulst, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Omni Bridgeway, is an industry veteran with nearly 25 years’ experience in all aspects of legal finance and legal assets management globally.

Mr van Hulst has established 6 institutionally backed funds aimed at funding legal assets. Notably, he initiated and managed continental Europe’s first legal assets fund, with EUR 180 million in FUM, followed by a US$100 million fund in joint venture with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, for the Distressed Asset Recovery Program focused on legal finance for non-performing loans in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Mr. van Hulst has also established the innovative insurance wrapped legal enforcement Fund 8, which Omni Bridgeway launched in 2023, and the landmark legal assets continuation fund together with Ares Management in 2025.

Mr van Hulst has been in various leadership roles within Omni Bridgeway since 2002 and has been involved in all aspects of the business. He headed the 2017 acquisition by Omni Bridgeway of German funder Roland ProzessFinanz and lead the 2019 merger between IMF Bentham Limited and Omni Bridgeway, resulting in Omni Bridgeway’s position as the world’s leading fund manager for legal assets.

Prior to Omni Bridgeway, Mr van Hulst was a structured finance specialist with ABN AMRO Bank. He worked in the bank’s structured finance unit in New Delhi, India, and was part of the Capital Structuring & Advisory team in Amsterdam. He previously also worked for a venture capital backed fintech start-up. 

Mr van Hulst holds an MBA from INSEAD in France and a Master’s in Management from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.  He has lived, studied and worked in the Netherlands, India, France and Switzerland and speaks Dutch, English, German and French.