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 Keller Postman. He recently launched and serves as CEO of Gerchen Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on differentiated exposures to legal assets, which has raised more than $1 billion of institutional capital since its founding in 2021.
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.
Adam 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.