Mr. Shah's career spans more than 20 years helping clients navigate intricate legal matters, conduct multi-jurisdictional investigations, steer regulatory negotiations, manage crises, and implement robust anti-money laundering (AML) strategies.
Bhavin Shah is a leader in our Global Investigations and Disputes practice. He is strategic advisor to global law firms, financial institutions, sovereigns, and business leaders — the person clients turn to when they face their most serious regulatory, legal, or reputational challenges. He fights to resolve the unresolvable.
Mr. Shah has built a reputation for handling the most sensitive, high-profile, and confidential matters across sectors and borders. Over the past 20 years, he has advised clients on complex investigations, financial crime risks, shareholder disputes, and regulatory enforcement actions in the UK, the Middle East, South Asia, and the U.S.
He is often asked to step in when the issue is too politically charged, the exposure too significant, or the client too high-profile for business-as-usual advisory. Whether it’s navigating a whistleblower-triggered global investigation, managing a hostile regulatory action, or bringing order to a billion-dollar family dispute, Mr. Shah brings strategy, discretion, and results.
Mr. Shah regularly “quarterbacks” large multi-jurisdictional teams — coordinating lawyers, forensic experts, crisis managers, and regulators — all while staying laser-focused on protecting his clients’ interests and credibility.
Recent engagements include:
Nearly all of Mr. Shah’s work remains confidential and never enters the public domain — a reflection of the trust placed in him by those he advises. When matters do go public, it is often because he has already shaped the outcome behind closed doors.
Mr. Shah is widely recognised as a thought leader on governance, financial crime, and regulatory risk. He is a regular contributor to global policy discussions through his writings, board work, and speaking appearances at leading private and public sector forums.
He recently authored the Secretariat Global Financial and Economic Crime Outlook, a flagship report examining enforcement trends, geopolitical risk, and the future of cross-border investigations.
Mr. Shah was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020, and serves on the founding board of D2A2, the Gulf’s leading digital assets and AI policy platform.
He divides his time between London and Dubai and spends his spare hours walking, reflecting, and exploring how law, trust, and technology will shape tomorrow’s economy.
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