Travis Lenkner

Chief Development Officer at Burford Capital

Speaker

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 legal finance market. In 2013, he entered the nascent field as a launch partner in Gerchen Keller Capital, which Burford acquired in 2016. Following that, 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. Most recently, Mr. Lenkner was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Larkspur Partners, a legal finance and advisory firm. 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.