Arman Pahlavan
An authority on corporate matters, Arman advises venture capital firms, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies, both private and public.
Arman Pahlavan counsels his clients on mergers and acquisitions with special purpose acquisition companies, private equity, or strategic buyers; and in corporate finance and intellectual property transactions, including fund formation for investment funds.
Arman works with corporate clients in cross-border transactions, including their listings on U.S. and international stock exchanges. These clients span a range of industries, including software and mobile, augmented reality and virtual reality, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, digital health and life sciences, and energy technologies.
Arman’s private equity clients include those in the consumer-packaged goods, food and beverage, and infrastructure industries. He collaborates with Perkins Coie teams to represent special committees and boards of directors of publicly traded and growth companies in bet-the-company complex litigation matters. Representative clients include IT Cosmetics, Sunwink, Sigma International, Tomorrow Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, and Kleiner Perkins.
Arman garnered first institutional round investments and CEO placements for his clients to advance their growth and funding prospects, and his aggregate transaction value measures in billions. In addition to establishing traditional private funds, Arman has been tapped by sovereign wealth funds to establish their investment structures in the United States and abroad.
Areas of focus
Industries
Services
Education & Credentials
Education
- University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D., Articles Editor, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 1991
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
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New York
Related Employment
- Judicial Extern for The Honorable Abner J. Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1990
Professional Recognition
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Corporate Law, 2018-2023
Listed as a "Northern California Super Lawyer," 2013, 2016
Impact
Community Involvement
- Commencement Speaker for the undergraduate class of 2017 at University of California, Berkeley
- The Arman Pahlavan Scholarship in Iranian Studies. Arman founded the program to support the graduate studies in Iranian studies at UC Berkeley’s Near Eastern Studies Department.
