Adam Gerchen serves as Chief Executive Officer of Gerchen Capital Partners, where he is responsible for all management, investment, and operational activities at the firm.
He is a noted pioneer in the litigation finance and legal services sectors. Gerchen co-founded and was CEO of Gerchen Keller Capital, which from its launch in 2013 grew to become the largest private 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, a global finance firm focused on law, before co-founding Keller Postman, a leading law firm focusing on complex, large scale litigation and arbitration proceedings. As its CEO, Gerchen leads efforts to develop unique arbitration strategies and other innovations in mass actions, generating settlements of more than $3 billion for firm clients.
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Earlier in his career, Gerchen 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.
Gerchen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Association of Law and Business.