Decades of results-driven legal counsel. A career of visionary leadership.
W. GRANT FARRAR
FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
Legal Finance Leader
Arran Capital works with counterparties and their legal counsel to ensure vindication of rights and access to courts. As an innovative market leader, Grant worked with his industry peers to author an article persuasively laying out the case for public sector legal financing. Tapping into his networks in the legal finance world, and capitalizing upon his experience as a founder and managing director of a legal finance fund, Grant also assists clients as a trusted advisor. He finds and evaluates legal finance opportunities, and assists in closing optimal legal finance transactions benefiting all parties.
Exemplary Fiscal Innovation and Stewardship
As Corporation Counsel for Evanston, Illinois, Grant spearheaded risk management and litigation strategies, saving taxpayers over $12M in eight years. He secured millions in compensation and new revenue in several major affirmative litigations. Grant’s negotiation skills and transactional legal expertise benefits clients seeking sound advice and counsel in evaluating and securing beneficial legal financing arrangements.
Experienced Legal and Business Counsel
Since 1997, Grant has represented and advised public and private sector clients on complex legal, policy, and business matters across the country. Grant was both in-house and external counsel, allowing him to evaluate risk and outcomes from every side of the table. As an elite trial attorney, Grant successfully tried to verdict over 150 jury and contested bench trials, and also represented clients in multinational arbitrations. Grant is a certified Executive Scholar from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.