Adam Gill is a founder and Managing Director at GLS Capital and leads patent-related investments. Adam has evaluated hundreds of patent opportunities and has underwritten and managed hundreds of millions of dollars of litigation finance investments. He has led cases and investments in which his clients and counterparties have obtained more than $700 million in settlements and verdicts.
Adam’s experience in litigation finance began in 2013 when he joined Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC (“GKC”) as its first employee and led its patent investment team as the firm grew from $100 million AUM into the world’s largest private fund focused on legal and regulatory risk in 2016, with $1.4 billion AUM. After GKC was acquired by Burford in December 2016, Adam served as a Principal at Burford.
Prior to joining GKC, Adam was a partner in the patent litigation group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago. Before joining K&E in 2004, Adam was a litigator in the Silicon Valley office of Dechert LLP, where he practiced patent, trade secret, securities and antitrust litigation. Adam holds a J.D. from the University of California-Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. from the University of South Carolina.