Anna joined LionFish as Senior Adviser in September 2023. She has thirty years of experience in global capital markets, is an active NED of several companies and acts as independent litigation and risk adviser to select private equity firms.

Having started her career as a corporate lawyer, she then joined Investec Merchant Bank in 1992, specialising in risk management and working extensively in the areas of corporate and structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, specialised finance, as well as in other areas of banking and financial services. Given her expertise in structuring and implementing corporate and structured finance transactions in the mining, banking and bio science sectors, Anna was a pioneer in Canada’s first private healthcare hospital which was successfully sold to Centric Health a public company in 2010.

Anna works with select private equity firms in an advisory capacity for general risks and litigation, and has had considerable experience in litigation funding. Since 2000, she has been and remains on the board of many publicly-traded and private companies across the USA and Canada and has many years of experience chairing Audit, Governance and Compensation committees for public companies as an independent Director. Between 2019 and 2021, Anna received numerous awards including for Global Excellence, Business Woman of the Year and Top 100 People in Finance.

John joined LionFish as Senior Adviser in August 2023. He has over 32 years of experience as a solicitor working in private practice and currently acts as mediator and litigation consultant on a range of commercial disputes.

John qualified as a lawyer in 1981 at leading global law firm Ashurst and became Partner only a few years later. He has worked on, and had conduct of, an eclectic portfolio of cases ranging from breach of warranty claims to disputes involving banking and finance, negligence, trusts, oil and gas, aviation and more. Following his many years as a senior Litigation Partner at Ashurst – where he ended up practising for 26 years – John took a sabbatical to focus on wildlife conservation in Southern Africa. Some 18 months later, he returned to practice as Partner with Howrey, and then with Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) before becoming a CEDR-accredited Mediator and Litigation Consultant.

Internationally recognised, and formerly on the Board of the International Association of Defense Counsel, he has an extensive track record representing both claimants and defendants in complex business litigation impacting multiple industry sectors. He has frequently been at the cutting edge of developments in substantive law and procedure and has been repeatedly recognised in ‘Who’s Who Legal’ Directories of Business Lawyers and by Global Counsel 3000. He has also been described as ‘highly experienced and tough’ by Legal 500 and has time and again been commended for his ‘solution-driven approach’ (Chambers).

Adrian was appointed Senior Adviser of LionFish in August 2023. He has over 34 years of experience as a solicitor working in private practice in the City of London. He was a Partner for 30 of these years and has been advising LionFish since 2021.

Having begun his career as a corporate lawyer, specialising in private company M&A and private equity, he later specialised in cross-border insolvency and financial restructuring and financial services litigation. He has worked on numerous cutting edge engagements in the UK, US, Europe and Emerging Markets, and has led some of the UK’s strongest bankruptcy and corporate restructuring teams. His clients included major UK and US financial institutions and international accountancy firms.

From 2001, Adrian was appointed Managing Partner of the London offices of two eminent US law firms, guiding them through periods of significant structural and cultural change. He has been awarded several bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer awards over the years.

Tets was appointed Managing Director of LionFish upon its launch in May 2020. He started his career as an investment banker, structuring and marketing derivative and securitisation transactions at ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as well as being a founding partner of fixed income agency broker Amias Berman & Co LLP.

He has been involved in litigation funding since 2011, alongside various other business activities as both adviser and investor, including setting up captive litigation funder Sparkle Capital Ltd , for Acasta in 2014. A long established and leading figure in the litigation finance industry, he was most recently responsible for running the ATE business at Acasta Europe Ltd, as well as managing Sparkle Capital Ltd which he built into a prominent market player.

Tets brings dynamism, entrepreneurism and innovation to the litigation funding markets through his unique combination of a deep understanding of litigation funding, derivatives structuring and financial engineering, together with a broad commercial experience across a number of roles and sectors. In particular, he has a reputation for driving operational efficiency, transparency, delivery and marrying this with innovative and practical deal-making traits, which form the backbone of LionFish’s approach to litigation funding.

Tanya joined LionFish in February 2022 and was appointed to the Board in July 2023.

Having started her career at TheJudge Global, the then leading London-based brokerage for dispute risk solutions, she quickly became a highly regarded industry peer. Her technical and legal expertise of both the ATE insurance and litigation funding markets were consistently mirrored in her commercialism and ability to get deals closed. In addition to negotiating and structuring insurance and financing agreements, Tanya also spent time educating lawyers and counsel on this niche industry.

In 2020, she was hired by Emissary Partners, the global disputes advisory boutique where her ambition, extensive relationships and economic understanding of disputes contributed to the firm’s growth and work with investors and litigation funders on optimising the outcomes of complex portfolios and disputes.

Tanya has a dynamic, thoughtful approach that consistently delivers against the needs of any situation. Her quick, agile mind and commerciality are reflected in her straightforward and transparent approach as well as ability to operate robustly and efficiently. With both her market knowledge and start-up experience, Tanya brings a rare mix of qualities that align with LionFish’s approach and strategy to litigation funding – all which led to her rapidly becoming an integral part of the firm’s management team.

Gavin Wells was appointed Chair of LionFish in July 2023. After serving for eight years as a British Army officer in the Royal Artillery, he spent fifteen years at Citi working in a variety of trading and global leadership roles in Foreign Exchange.

He was subsequently hired by the London Clearing House, now a part of the London Stock Exchange Group, as CEO of the services business, where he worked with fourteen of the largest shareholder banks, to deliver the first clearing service for Foreign Exchange and rebuild a similar service in Paris for Credit Default Swaps.

From 2016 to date, Gavin worked at a leading fintech, Digital Asset, bringing distributed ledger technology to financial services before moving to the FX arm of Deutsche Börse Group, 360T, to work on their product strategy. Over that period, recognising his passion for both governance and leadership, he completed the Financial Times NED diploma and then went on to complete an MA in Coaching and Mentoring.

Gavin has a deep interest in the development of individuals and teams, in particular, the role this plays in effective business outcomes and governance. He is a founding member of the Women’s Equality Party and actively supports the charities Action Breaks Silence and The Recovery Course.