Adam Gerchen

Adam Gerchen is an entrepreneur and investor and currently serves in leadership positions at a variety of businesses.

He is a noted pioneer in the litigation finance and legal services sectors. Adam co-founded and was CEO of Gerchen Keller Capital, which from its launch in 2013 grew into the largest investment and advisory firm focused exclusively on legal and regulatory risk, raising more than $2 billion of institutional capital before its acquisition in December 2016. He went on to serve as President of NYSE- and LSE-listed Burford Capital, the leading global finance firm focused on law, before co-founding litigation boutique Keller Postman. As its CEO, Adam led efforts to develop unique arbitration strategies and other innovations in mass actions that have generated recoveries for more than 500,000 individuals. He recently launched and serves as CEO of Gerchen Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on legal finance with $750 million of assets under management.

In the areas of finance, Adam co-founded and serves as Chairman of Thora Capital, an alternative asset manager dedicated to aviation finance. He also serves on the board of NextGen Growth Partners, a private equity firm focused on lower-middle market companies. Earlier in his career, Adam was a portfolio manager at Alyeska Investment Group, a Chicago-based market-neutral hedge fund, where he specialized in risk arbitrage and event-driven investing. He began his career at Goldman Sachs.