About the Firm
Overview
Parthian is an internationally-focused capital market and financial advisor, serving major businesses and public sector institutions in Iran, as well as foreign institutions and businesses who wish to participate in the Iranian market.
Our focus is on advanced and complex work for a limited number of institutional clients, for whom we aim to be a long-term trusted advisor. This trust is built on two pillars - expertise and integrity:
- Our services are limited to those areas in which our team has deep expertise and significant international experience.
- Our conduct of business is guided by the highest standards of integrity and professionalism. We are zealous about protecting client confidentiality and avoiding conflicts of interest.
We are an independent firm and, when appropriate to meet client needs, are able to collaborate with reputable domestic and international advisors and transaction intermediaries.
Services
Broadly, we offer services in the following areas:
- Outbound cross-border capital markets access for domestic entities, whether for fundraising or investment purposes
- Financial advisory services involving domestic entities, for example M&A, valuations, restructuring, sector or company research, design of funding instruments or mechanisms, etc.
- Onshore and offshore Iran-linked investment fund advisory
More details are available at Services.
Strengths
For domestic clients, the firm’s strengths include:
- Market-leading expertise and deep international experience from advanced markets in capital markets, complex securities design, financial law, private equity and corporate restructuring.
- Extensive international relationships with senior market players in Asia, Middle East, Europe and the US developed by our people in the course of thirty years of professional activity.
- An excellent reputation among international market participants built on our people’s long experience working for and with international companies at the highest levels of the market.
For foreign clients, the firm’s strengths include:
- Ability to work with sophisticated foreign clients and meet their expectations for quality and service. Our people have worked at top global professional services firms for many years and understand the concerns, needs and approaches of international clients.
- A strong understanding of domestic conditions, particularities and modalities, allowing us to support clients effectively in Iran.
- The credibility and reputation to engage with top local entities, players and regulators on behalf of our clients.
Values
Our work is shaped by the values which are central to our firm and people. These are:
- Expertise: We bring deep international subject-matter expertise to bear on our work, and we only take on engagements where we have the requisite expertise to bring substantial value.
- Market leadership: We aim to be thought leaders in the market. We bring original and innovative thinking to our projects with a view to disseminating knowledge and stimulating market development.
- Professionalism: We conduct our business with the high standards of professionalism expected of participants at the top end of the international market.
- Integrity: We conduct ourselves ethically and with the highest integrity in dealings with clients, counterparts, supervisors and the financial system. This means placing the interests of clients first. This also means respecting all applicable legal limitations.
- Independence: We are independent of other domestic firms so that we can operate free of conflicts and provide unbiased advice. We cooperate with others when it is appropriate and in the interest of clients.
- Clarity: We offer thinking and advice which are clear, insightful and practical.
