Jinal Shah

Jinal advises private and public companies, funds and investors on high-value cross border M&A, private equity, joint ventures and strategic investments.

• Engagements

  Recent experience includes the following:
  

  • Advised Canal+ Overseas on its strategic investment in iROKO, Africa’s largest Internet TV operator and the world’s largest online platform for African video content.
  • Advised Infracapital on its investment in Bioenergy Infrastructure Limited (BIG) and BIG's subsequent investment in the first waste-to-energy plant to utilise the U.K. Government's contracts for difference regime.  
  • Represented Canal+ Group, the leading pay-TV company in France, in the sale of their majority stake in Poland’s largest broadcaster TVN group to U.S. media group Scripps Networks Interactive.
  • Led a cross-border and multi-disciplinary Orrick team advising Actis, one of the largest and most active funds in Africa, on its purchase of a majority interest in three power assets in Cameroon from Fortune 200 global power company AES Corporation.
  • Advised Intu Properties plc on its joint venture with LaSalle Investment Management, acting on behalf of Greater Manchester Pension Fund and West Yorkshire Pension Fund, to jointly own the intu Chapelfield Shopping Centre in Norwich.
  • Advised Bioenergy Infrastructure Group, a specialist investor in the biomass and waste to energy sector, in its acquisition of a portfolio of 20 assets from the UK's Green Investment Bank.
  • Advised StudioCanal in the acquisition of Paddington and Company Limited, which owns all intellectual property rights, apart from publishing rights, to Michael Bond's classic children's character Paddington Bear.