Tets Ishikawa

Tets was appointed Managing Director of LionFish upon its launch in May 2020 (and subsequently CEO).

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.