Longford Capital Leaders Named to IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2025 List for Eleventh Consecutive Year
Annual list recognizes global IP leaders and strategists
CHICAGO, November 20, 2024 - Longford Capital today announced that Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine has named Longford Capital Co-founders and Managing Directors William P. Farrell, Jr., and Michael A. Nicolas, along with Director Marc A. Cavan, to the Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2025 list. This is Longford’s eleventh consecutive year featured on the list, which showcases top IP experts from around the world.
The IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders list recognizes leaders across private practice, in-house and service provider roles for their expertise and experience creating, managing, transacting, protecting and enforcing patent rights. The rankings are the result of meticulous and exhaustive research from the IAM team, which gathers thousands of nominations and conducts extensive fact-finding with patent lawyers, attorneys and clients over the course of five months to determine the awardees. The ranking denotes those who are regarded by their industry peers as the most strategic and skilled in their approach to IP.
“It’s an honor to once again for members of our team to be included among the top international IP leaders in this industry-leading ranking,” said Timothy S. Farrell, co-founder and managing director of Longford Capital. “We remain dedicated to developing innovative solutions for those pursuing high-stake IP litigation, offering not only capital but also strategy and support. We’re proud to see our peers recognize the strength of our insights and approach year after year.”
Longford Capital provides equity financing and assistance to individuals, businesses and other organizations that are executing litigation programs to obtain value from IP portfolios. Its one-of-a-kind University Initiative provides financial assistance to help universities realize the full value of their research and development activities without burdening their budgets.
About Longford Capital
Longford Capital is a private investment company that provides capital to leading law firms, public and private companies, universities, government agencies, and other entities involved in large-scale, commercial legal disputes. Longford was one of the first litigation funds in the United States and is among the world’s largest litigation finance companies with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management. Longford offers a broad range of capital solutions to fund attorneys' fees and expenses and otherwise manage the financial risk of pursuing meritorious legal claims in return for a share of a favorable settlement or award. The firm manages a diversified portfolio and considers investments in subject matter areas where it has developed considerable expertise, including, business-to-business contract claims, antitrust and trade regulation claims, intellectual property claims (including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret), fiduciary duty claims, fraud claims, claims in bankruptcy and liquidation, domestic and international arbitrations, claim monetization, insurance matters, mass actions and class actions, and a variety of others.