Parya Badie
Partner
London
Parya Badie
Partner
London
Contact details
Parya is a partner in our Derivatives and Structured Finance practice in London, serves on the global Board and chairs the firm’s 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.” A client quotes “Parya Badie is highly competent and excellent at finding workable solutions to complex structuring problems, particularly for our TRS work.” 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.
Qualifications
Professional
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
Fraudulent emails
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Qualifications
Professional
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
Fraudulent emails
Please note there is a known fraud/scam currently using the Allen & Overy brand and Parya Badie’s name.
More information on fraud using the Allen & Overy brand can be found here.
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
Parya Badie and her team are one of our go-to teams for structured credit work. She has helped us close many flow (e.g. CLO asset swaps) and highly bespoke transactions successfully this year.
Legal 500 UK 2022
Parya Badie is highly competent and excellent at finding workable solutions to complex structuring problems, particularly for our TRS work. It has also been great to work with an intelligent lawyer with such a calm and patient telephone manner during the stress of lockdown!
Legal 500 UK 2022
