Anna El-Erian

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.