Howard Shams

Chief Executive Officer

(212) 726-2645 | hshams@parabellumcap.com

Howie co-founded Parabellum Capital and serves as Chief Executive Officer. He leads the firm’s overall strategic direction, new business initiatives, fund risk management, and capital raising. He is also a member of the Investment Committee.

Chambers & Partners perennially ranks Howie as one of the leading practitioners in the US litigation finance sector, recognizing him as “one of the most well-respected funders operating in the market” and “one of the pioneers of the industry.” Howie has also been ranked by LawDragon as a global leader in litigation finance and a leading legal consultant and strategist, and by Who’s Who Legal as a thought leader in third-party funding.

Before co-founding Parabellum, Howie was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse for fifteen years. In 2006, he co-founded the Legal Risk Strategies & Finance business at Credit Suisse, which was the first institutional commercial litigation finance business of its kind, and which was spun off the bank’s platform as Parabellum Capital. Howie was a senior manager within the bank’s Leveraged Finance business and a member of the Global Credit Products Operating Committee. He also served as Head of Special Situations, responsible for developing niche strategies and new accretive businesses for the group, especially in unique, developing asset classes. Before joining the Bank, Howie practiced securities, bankruptcy and transactional law at the firms of Dewey Ballantine; Richards, Spears, Kibbe & Orbe; and Mandel & Esbin.

Howie received his B.A., phi beta kappa, magna cum laude, from Columbia College and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.