BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Jim Bernhard, the renowned Baton Rouge business leader and entrepreneur, died Sunday at the age of 71. Leaders in the community are remembering him as a titan in business.

“Jim is known internationally for the things he’s done and for the things he was continuing and striving to do,” said Lenny Lemoine, CEO of Lemoine, a company that works with Bernhard Capital Partners.

Bernhard founded the Shaw Group in 1987, which became a Fortune 500 company that drew international attention for its importance in the industrial sector. He later formed Bernhard Capital Partners (BCP), a private equity firm, in 2014 following the sale of Shaw Group.

Community impact

Chris Meyer, president of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, said Bernhard’s impact will live on for decades to

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