Sanjiv Shah

Sanjiv Shah is the global co-head of energy & power investment banking. Based in Houston, Shah joined the energy & power investment banking group at Piper Sandler in 2008 as an analyst, became a managing director in 2016, and was named global co-head in 2019. Since becoming a managing director, Shah has led approximately 200 closed or announced M&A, strategic advisory, restructuring and capital markets projects, including playing a key role in the majority of IPOs involving services and equipment companies for energy, power and infrastructure end market during that time. 
  
Prior to joining the firm, Shah worked for Citigroup for four years in London and Zurich, in fixed income capital markets and the financial institutions group. In Zurich, he worked as a corporate banker covering the banking and insurance sectors and in London, he worked as a controller for the European global loans, securitization and leveraged finance product groups. 
  
Shah serves on the advisory board of the Energy Workforce & Technology Council (“EWTC”), which is among the largest trade associations for the global energy technology and services sector. Shah was presented with the “Industry Innovator Award” by EWTC in 2019, and is the only investment banker to have received the award. 
  
Shah has also previously served on the board of directors for the Association of Corporate Growth (“ACG”) Houston Chapter and has led several transactions that have won ACG’s Deal of the Year awards for cross-border transactions, M&A, financings and restructuring. In 2018, he was named a 40 under 40 honoree by both the Houston Business Journal and Hart Energy Oil & Gas Investor.
  
Shah is originally from Manchester, England, and graduated with a bachelor of science degree with honors in economics from the University of Manchester.