Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Appoints Jinal Shah as UK Managing Partner

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Appoints Jinal Shah as UK Managing Partner

He succeeds Segun Osuntokun, who held the role since 2018 and will take up the new post of global senior partner in January

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has appointed corporate partner Jinal Shah as its Managing Partner in the United Kingdom.

Shah scales the management role, having joined the firm in 2021. Prior to that, he was working with Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe and in 2012, entered a partnership.

Lisa Mayhew and Steve Baumer, the Co-Chairs of the Firm commented, “Shah has made a significant impact within our global corporate and finance transactions team, helping to bring significant new clients to the firm and leading collaborative cross-practice and cross-border teams on multiple high-profile deals. We are confident that as the UK managing partner, his leadership will be equally impactful.”

Shah added, “I’m honored to assume the responsibility of leading BCLP’s UK offices and appreciate the confidence that our firm’s leadership has expressed in me in taking this position ,” he said. “Osuntokun has done a remarkable job by leading our UK business, and I am eager to build on these successes and get started in this new role.”

He has been instrumental in leading teams across a variety of high-profile deals for clients including Angel Trains, one of the UK’s largest rolling stock companies, Carrefour, the French multinational retail group, Canal+, the French pay TV operator, and Ocado Group, the technology-led global software, and robotics platform.

With a broad sectoral practice that spans private and public companies, financial institutions, and private equity funds, he focuses on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, strategic investments, and associated regulatory advice.

While acting in the infrastructure and TMT sectors, with an emphasis on cross-border and domestic M&A, Shah specializes in guiding clients in buying and selling operating infrastructure businesses.

His appointment is the latest of a series of management changes at the firm, triggered by the terms of its partnership agreement. It is seeking a transition from firm-wide co-chairs to a single leadership structure by next year.