Ms Devi Shah > Mayer Brown International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Mayer Brown International LLP is recommended for handling the full gamut of insurance transactional and regulatory work, with particular areas of focus including transatlantic M&A mandates, insurance linked securities and warranty and indemnity issues. The practice operates closely with the firm’s US offices. Practice head Colin Scagell advises on complex M&A within the insurance sector, with expertise in cross-border matters involving Bermuda. Rebecca Bothamley supports the firm’s transactional offering. Devi Shah has extensive experience dealing with insurance-based insolvency and restructurings.

Mayer Brown International LLP has ‘very broad knowledge across multiple sectors, geographies and financing products’, ensuring that it is well-positioned to advise  myriad stakeholders, including lenders, funds, IPs, boards of directors and security trustees and agents, on complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings and insolvencies. A stalwart of the team, Devi Shah ‘provides innovative solutions, which lead to cost-effective results’ and is particularly effective at handling insurance and pensions-related mandates. She co-heads the team alongside ‘highly experienced and effective problem solver’  Michael Fiddy and Amy Jacks, who has ‘detailed UK insolvency expertise’. Barry Cosgrave‘s arrival towards the end of 2020 from K&L Gates LLP further broadens the expertise of the team in light of his ‘experience of difficult jurisdictions and emerging market modus operandi’.