Travis Lenkner is Chief Development Officer and a member of Burford’s Management Committee, with responsibility for identifying and executing strategic initiatives that drive growth and align with the company’s long-term objectives.
Recognized by The American Lawyer as an “innovative business creator in the legal space,” Mr. Lenkner has built and led pathbreaking organizations at the intersection of law and finance. He is a collaborative problem-solver and seasoned executive whom the New York Times described as “driven by a legal reformist spirit and entrepreneurial zeal.”
For more than a decade, Mr. Lenkner has been a global leader in the litigation-finance market. In 2013, he entered the nascent field as a launch partner in Gerchen Keller Capital, which Burford acquired in 2016. More recently, Mr. Lenkner co-founded and was Managing Partner of one of the premier complex-litigation and mass-action law firms in the United States; he also co-founded and was a Director of the firm’s European counterpart. Before starting his own enterprises, Mr. Lenkner was Senior Counsel at The Boeing Company and an attorney in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
The Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference is a prestigious international event that focuses on the concept of collective redress, which refers to legal mechanisms that allow a large group of individuals who have suffered similar harm or injury to pursue their claims together as a single entity.
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