Paul Abrahimzadeh joined 1789 Capital as a partner following a 24 year career in investment banking. Paul is a recognized leader in finance with a track record of transformative deals, brings deep expertise in global capital markets.

At 1789 he is focused on new investment origination, deal structuring, capital raising and strategic initiatives.

The entirety of his investment banking career was spent at Citigroup advising corporate clients, financial sponsors, and institutional investors on some of the most complex and high-profile transactions in the industry.  Most recently Paul served as the bank’s Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets in North America.  Prior to that he served as the firm’s Head of Equity Capital Markets Syndicate in the Americas, overseeing new issue execution - covering all sectors, regions and products - including the firm’s multi-billion dollar risk trade business.

His career has spanned every sector and product across the public and private equity capital markets, having led >1,000 offerings during his career.  Over the past 8 years, Paul spent considerable time covering tech companies across all key verticals including AI, software, internet, fintech, semiconductors, digital infrastructure and tech services.  His list of notable deals spans jumbo offerings such as the largest private raise in history (Ant Financial’s $14bn pre-IPO round) to recent IPOs for high growth companies including Klaviyo, iBotta and Service Titan.

Paul graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in International Relations, Cum Laude, and a minor in Japanese. 

He holds Series 7, 63, 79 & 24 registrations.