Since February 2016, Shaghayegh Smousavi heads the CMS operations in Teheran and is Managing Director of the new CMS Pars office. Her work focuses on cross-border transactions and financing, in particular in the energy sector. She has special local know-how and experience advising international companies on taking up operations in Iran, respectively on re-entering the Iranian market. She also regularly represent her clients in arbitration proceedings and before authorities such as the German Federal Court of Justice or Higher Regional Courts.

Shaghayegh started her legal career with an international accountancy firm in Frankfurt and Paris and then worked for a tax consultancy in Niamey in Niger as well as for the European Commission in Brussels. She subsequently joined a big Anglo-Saxon firm where she worked as a counsel in her last position. Shaghayegh has been a CMS partner since 2013.