Shadi Enos Jahangir and Kevin M. O’Malley Named 2026 Banking and Finance Visionaries by Los Angeles Times Studios

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that partners Shadi Enos Jahangir and Kevin M. O'Malley, co-chair of the firm’s Finance, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy group, have been named 2026 Banking and Finance Visionaries by Los Angeles Times Studios in the March 2026 edition of its Business Magazine.

This annual recognition honors banking and finance leaders across Southern California who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, strategic insight, and a steadfast commitment to their clients and communities over the past 24 months. Honorees are distinguished by their consistent adherence to the highest professional standards. Both Shadi and Kevin have previously received this prestigious recognition.

To view the complete list of the 2026 Banking and Finance Visionaries, please click here.

Shadi's and Kevin's honoree profiles, as published in Business Magazine, are copied in full below.

Shadi Enos Jahangir
Partner, Finance
Blank Rome LLP
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Establishing her firm as a leader in the federal Main Street Loan Program during the pandemic, Shadi Enos Jahangir is a partner at Blank Rome LLP. She focuses her practice on commercial lending and corporate finance for major financial institutions and leading private equity sponsors. Jahangir’s recent successes include representing Siena Lending Group in a $350-million credit facility for SkyWater Technology and advising FirstElement Fuel on $120 million in financing rounds. She frequently publishes articles on finance law and serves as an editor for the American Bar Association Commercial Law Newsletter. She chairs the board for The Center in Hollywood, a nonprofit dedicated to ending isolation and homelessness in Los Angeles. 

Kevin O'Malley
Partner, Finance
Blank Rome LLP
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

By leading a $1.3-billion unitranche credit facility for BDO USA to establish one of the country’s largest employee stock ownership plans, Kevin O’Malley is a partner at Blank Rome LLP. He specializes in asset-based and cash flow financing for clients in the healthcare, technology, and manufacturing sectors. O’Malley recently represented PNC in a $250-million revolving credit facility that supported the take-private acquisition of SP Plus Corporation by Metropolis Technologies. His complex transaction history includes structuring a $210-million recapitalization for Klein Hersch and providing $110 million in exit financing for U.S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc. He previously served as an advisory board member for Back on My Feet Los Angeles and as a board member for the poverty-relief nonprofit MEND.