Parwäz Rafiqpoor

Parwäz Rafiqpoor is a lawyer and managing director (Geschäftsführer) at BDO Legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, and a leading figure in the firm's restructuring practice. At the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, BDO Legal was recognised as Restructuring Law Firm of the Year in Germany, an award that reflects the firm's strength in guiding complex companies and organisations through financial and operational difficulty from both a legal and a tax perspective.

BDO Legal is a limited liability law firm that operates as a legally independent cooperation partner within the wider BDO network, one of the world's major professional-services organisations. Founded in 2012, the firm advises clients across a range of disciplines including legal, deal advisory, board support and restructuring, and maintains offices across Germany. Its integration within the BDO network gives it access to audit, tax and advisory expertise, an advantage that is particularly valuable in restructuring work, where legal, financial and tax questions are closely intertwined and where a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary response is often decisive.

Mr Rafiqpoor studied law in Bonn and has built his career around the high-quality restructuring and reorganisation of complex companies and organisations. He advises on these matters from both a legal and a tax standpoint, with a particular focus on the retail and consumer-goods, automotive and manufacturing sectors, industries that have faced significant structural change and cyclical pressure in recent years. His work sits at the demanding intersection of insolvency, corporate and tax law, where the goal is to preserve value, stabilise businesses and chart a viable path forward for enterprises in difficulty.

His standing in the field extends beyond his advisory practice. Mr Rafiqpoor is a member of the restructuring committee of the Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer (IDW), the German professional body for auditors, and he is an author of the Frankfurt Commentary on the Insolvency Code, one of the standard scholarly references on German insolvency law. This combination of practical experience and scholarly authority places him among the recognised experts in German restructuring and insolvency, and reinforces the confidence that clients and peers place in the firm's counsel.

Mr Rafiqpoor has also taken on senior leadership responsibilities within the BDO organisation. He serves as chairman of BDO AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, having assumed that role in 2023, and he has been closely associated with the management of BDO Legal since its foundation, subsequently handing over its day-to-day operational leadership as his responsibilities across the wider organisation grew. This leadership perspective connects the restructuring practice to the broader strategic direction of the BDO network in Germany.

The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition as Restructuring Law Firm of the Year in Germany affirms the standing that BDO Legal and Parwäz Rafiqpoor have established in this challenging field. For companies confronting financial distress, and for the lenders, investors and stakeholders who surround them, the firm offers restructuring counsel that draws on deep legal and tax expertise and the resources of the wider BDO network. Backed by Mr Rafiqpoor's scholarly authority and sector focus, the practice is well placed to help complex organisations manage crisis, preserve value and pursue durable, legally robust solutions to the difficulties they face. His combination of hands-on restructuring practice, scholarly authorship and senior organisational leadership gives the firm both technical credibility and strategic perspective, qualities that matter greatly to the boards, lenders and stakeholders who are confronting serious financial distress.