Parham Peiroo

Parham Peiroo

Canada
4K followers 500+ connections

About

I'm a Partner in BCG's Principal Investor & Private Equity (PIPE) and Climate and Sustainability practices.

My PIPE practice focusses on helping investors formulate their fund strategy and optimize their operations (e.g., asset class strategy, net zero strategy, approaches to portfolio value creation, operational and organizational transformation incl. technology).

My climate practice focusses on working with investors and corporates to invest in and accelerate green businesses, and unlock new financing tools or blended finance mechanisms to increase capital flow into climate (including nature based solutions).

In addition to my strategy advisory work, I've served as the acting CEO of a climate tech start-up (carbon markets) backed by BCG and a leading global institutional investor.

More generally, I'm deeply passionate about building high-performance teams that advance social good through innovation and rethinking the art of the possible. Key causes that I'm focused on are supporting climate tech companies overcome valleys of death and facilitating market incentive alignment to invest in climate infrastructure, as well as supporting socio-economic mobility.

In my former life, I was a partner at a boutique corporate finance & M&A law firm where I led 30+ venture capital/debt and M&A deals. I also served as corporate counsel to several start-ups who I advised from seed to series A/B/C funding rounds and eventual exit. My accomplishments as a lawyer have been recognized both by my peers as well as my clients with Martindale-Hubbell ranking me an AV® Preeminent™ Lawyer and providing me with Client Champion Gold status.

Functional specialties: New venture formation, strategy (asset-class, growth, portfolio, future-proofing), market scan and target screening (market / asset-class attractiveness, market entry, target assessment), deal execution (negotiating, structuring and closing VC and M&A), corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, ESG

Industry expertise: Pension funds, venture capital/debt funds, climate tech, carbon markets, energy transition, growth stage companies

Articles by Parham

Activity

Join now to see all activity

Experience

Education

  •  Graphic

    -

    Selected as part of a distinctive cohort of BCG leaders to participate in the inaugural class of the Climate Stewardship Program at Columbia Climate School. Key themes covered during the four-month program included: Climate Science, Energy Transition, Mitigating C&S Risk, Climate Economics, Systems Change, Biodiversity, Sustainable Business Models, Circular Economy, Supply Chains, and Climate Technology.

  • -

    Activities and Societies: Treasurer - Law and Business Society, Student-Representative to the National Centre for Business Law's Dean's Advisory Committee, Vice-President - International Law Society

    Law Foundation of British Columbia Award for Academic Excellence (2007-2010), Selected member of the Canadian Labour Arbitration Competition moot team (2008-2009), Sigma Chi Balfour Fellow Scholarship for Academic and Extra-Curricular Excellence (2007-2008), Finalist in the American Bar Association Negotiation Competition (2007)

  • -

    Activities and Societies: New Member Class President, Public Relations Chairman and Spring Recruitment Chairman of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, International Relations Students' Association, UBC Model United Nations

    Dean's Honour List (average of 85% or higher), UBC Undergraduate Scholar Scholarship Program

Volunteer Experience

  • The Canadian Bar Association - British Columbia Branch Graphic

    Chair - Business Law Section

    The Canadian Bar Association - British Columbia Branch

    - 1 year 8 months

    The Business Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (BC) is a practice-focused section designed to meet the educational, advocacy and professional needs of business lawyers. The scope of the practice focus is laws that govern the rights and responsibilities of parties to commercial transactions and of directors, officers, and shareholders of business corporations.

  • The Canadian Bar Association - British Columbia Branch Graphic

    Business of Law Committee Member

    The Canadian Bar Association - British Columbia Branch

    - 1 year 11 months

    The Business of Law Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (BC) is a committee that is mandated to identify issues and anticipate changes within the legal profession and society that impact lawyers in their ability to engage in the business of the practice of law, and to make recommendations to the Executive Committee and Council of the Canadian Bar Association on appropriate responses to such issues or changes.

  • Civic Association of Iranian Canadians Graphic

    Chair, Director

    Civic Association of Iranian Canadians

    - 2 years 2 months

    Social Services

    The Civic Association of Iranian-Canadians is a non-profit society mandated to engage Iranian-Canadians in civic participation and to empower Iranian-Canadians to actively engage in the public sphere.

  • Director, Secretary

    Delta Omicron Society

    - 7 years 2 months

    Social Services

    The Delta Omicron Society is a non-profit society providing university students affordable community-based housing.

Publications

Honors & Awards

  • 5 out of 5 Preeminent

    Martindale-Hubbell

    Martindale-Hubbell Client Review Rated Lawyer of Preeminent 5 out of 5 as of September 2016.

  • AV® Preeminent™ Lawyer

    Martindale-Hubbell

    An AV® certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Persian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Recommendations received

9 people have recommended Parham

Join now to view

More activity by Parham

View Parham’s full profile

  • See who you know in common
  • Get introduced
  • Contact Parham directly
Join to view full profile

Other similar profiles

Explore collaborative articles

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.

Explore More

Add new skills with these courses