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Parya Badie

Partner

Parya is a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee.

She has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on a wide range of complex and highly structured trades with a particular emphasis on significant risk transfer products, bespoke funding trades and structured credit. She has extensive experience advising on contentious close-outs, redemptions and restructurings including during periods of financial distress, the Covid pandemic and various sovereign crises. 

She advises on insurance-capital markets cross-over structures including regulatory capital driven transactions and longevity derivatives. Parya has significant experience advising banks and sponsors on the hedging aspects of financings (project, acquisition, real estate and leveraged finance), securitisations and CLOs, including deal contingent hedging, restructuring of large hedging portfolios and the repackaging of inflation-linked cashflows. As part of her credit derivatives practice, she has advised the ISDA EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee on various matters over the years. Parya also advises on bespoke collateral arrangements with expertise on financial collateral arrangements. 

Legal 500 UK describes Parya as “a standout partner.” Chamber UK 2023 cites that “Parya is excellent at finding workable solutions to complex structuring problems. She is both detail-oriented and commercially minded" and Chambers UK 2024 also quotes that "Parya is practical and can boil down information in a straightforward way.” 

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Law Society of England and Wales.
  • Member, New York State Bar Association.
  • Member, American Bar Association (Section of International Law and Practice).

Recognition

Parya is practical and can boil down information in a straightforward way.
Chambers UK 2024
Parya is excellent at finding workable solutions to complex structuring problems. She is both detail-oriented and commercially minded.
Chambers UK 2023

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted to the bar, State of New York, USA, 2000

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2010

Academic

JD, Law, Harvard Law School

BA, University of North Texas, 1994

Languages

English
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A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.