Travis Lenkner

Travis Lenkner is Chief Development Officer of Burford Capital 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,” Travis 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, Travis 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, Travis 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, Travis was Senior Counsel at The Boeing Company and an attorney in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Travis was a law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the Supreme Court of the United States and for then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He earned his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Kansas Law Review, and his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University.