2019 speakers

Michael Nicolas

MANAGING DIRECTOR AT LONGFORD CAPITAL

Michael A. Nicolas is a founder and Managing Director of Longford Capital. Michael is responsible for portfolio management, including underwriting ,investment selection, and overseeing the efforts of independent attorneys and other professionals as part of the due diligence process. Michael serves on Longford Capital’s Investment Committee.

Michael is an accomplished attorney with nearly 15 years of experience representing corporate clients involved in complex litigation, including trial experience in the commercial litigation departments of two prominent national law firms, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP and Gardner, Carton & Douglas LLP (n/k/a Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP). He represented a wide array of clients involved in sophisticated litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and has successfully prosecuted and defended claims involving a variety of legal issues including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and other business torts, breach of joint venture and partnership agreements, intellectual property claims, product liability claims, real estate disputes, real estate taxation disputes, health care litigation, employment discrimination and other labor disputes, First Amendment claims, defamation claims (including slander and libel), consumer fraud claims, RICO claims, securities litigation, class actions, insurance litigation, and others.

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