Perella Weinberg Partners LP, a global independent advisory company, provides strategic and financial advice to clients across the most active industry sectors and international markets.
The company’s wide range of global clients includes large public multinational corporations, mid-sized public and private companies, financial sponsors, individual entrepreneurs, private and institutional investors, creditor committees, and government institutions.
The company’s business provides services to m...
Perella Weinberg Partners LP, a global independent advisory company, provides strategic and financial advice to clients across the most active industry sectors and international markets.
The company’s wide range of global clients includes large public multinational corporations, mid-sized public and private companies, financial sponsors, individual entrepreneurs, private and institutional investors, creditor committees, and government institutions.
The company’s business provides services to multiple industry sectors, geographic markets, and advisory offerings. The company’s collaborative partnership and integrated approach, combining deep industry insights, significant technical, product, and transactional expertise, and rigorous work ethic, create a significant opportunity for the company to realize sustainable growth. The company seeks to advise clients throughout their evolution, with the full range of its advisory capabilities, including, among other things, advice related to strategic and financial decisions, mergers and acquisitions (‘M&A’) execution, shareholder engagement advisory, financing and capital solutions advice, with a focus on restructuring and liability management, capital markets advisory, and private capital placement, as well as specialized underwriting and research services, primarily for the energy and related industries.
As of December 31, 2024, the company served its clients with 511 advisory professionals, including 66 advisory partners and 48 advisory managing directors, based in ten offices, located in five countries around the world.
Growth Strategy
The company’s growth strategy centers on increasing the depth and breadth of its advisory business in both current and potential future markets. As it executes on its growth strategy, the company expects to strengthen its relationships with clients and the capabilities it can offer them, which will enhance its position as a leading independent advisory company.
Advisory Offerings
Clients
The company’s business provides services to multiple industry sectors and geographic markets through a broad range of advisory service offerings, which offer the company an opportunity to realize sustainable growth. The company’s primary areas of industry focus include: Consumer & Retail; Energy & Energy Transition; Financial Services & FinTech; Healthcare; Industrials & Infrastructure; and Technology, Telecom & Media.
The company complements its industry focus with extensive advisory expertise in the largest international advisory markets. It operates out of ten offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, and it has deep international experience that has enabled it to work extensively with clients worldwide. Since the company’s inception, it has advised over 1,300 clients on transactions in over 45 countries.
Advisory Services
The company seeks to advise its clients throughout their corporate evolution, with the full range of its advisory capabilities. Those services include advice related to strategic and financial decisions, M&A execution, shareholder engagement advisory, financing and capital solutions advice, with a focus on restructuring and liability management, capital markets advisory, and private capital placement, as well as specialized underwriting and research services, primarily for the energy and related industries.
M&A and Strategic Advisory: The company has established a leading M&A and strategic advisory practice, advising clients on a range of strategic issues, risks, and opportunities impacting their businesses. In these advisory relationships, it works closely with its clients through all stages of their assessment and evaluation of a range of strategic opportunities. In these situations, the company has built a reputation for providing valuable insights, experience, deep strategic thinking, rigor, technical expertise, and a personalized approach in its partnerships with its clients to thoughtfully achieve their objectives.
Financing and Capital Solutions Advisory: The company has built, and is continuing to invest in, a leading franchise advising clients on capital markets matters, both in transaction-related and ordinary course financing execution. It provides comprehensive capital structure advice and helps its clients develop financing solutions tailored to their specific needs.
Regulation
The company, through which it conducts strategic advisory and restructuring services in the United States, engages in private placements of securities and investment banking mergers and acquisitions advisory services, conducts equity research and sales in the United States, is registered as a broker-dealer with, and is subject to regulation and oversight by, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘SEC’). In addition, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (‘FINRA’), a self-regulatory organization that is subject to oversight by the SEC, adopts and enforces rules governing the conduct, and examines the activities of, its member firms, including the company. State securities regulators also have regulatory or oversight authority over the company.
In the United States, the company is also subject to regulation internationally. Perella Weinberg UK Limited (‘PWP U.K.’) is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’) as a Small Non-Interconnected investment firm. Perella Weinberg Partners France SAS (‘PWP France’) is authorized and regulated by the Autorite de ContrÔle Prudentiel (‘ACPR’) and the Autorite des Marches Financiers (‘AMF’) as a class 3 investment firm. Both PWP U.K. and PWP France are subject to regulations applicable to investment firms, respectively in the U.K. and in France, including market abuse and insider dealing regulation, anti-money laundering, conflicts management, business conduct, regulatory reporting, and minimum regulatory capital requirements. Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities - Canada, ULC (‘TPH Canada’) is registered as an investment dealer with the provincial securities regulators in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, with the Alberta Securities Commission being TPH Canada's principal regulator under the passport system adopted by Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators. TPH Canada is also a dealer member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (‘CIRO’), which adopts and enforces rules overseeing the capital, business conduct, record keeping, individual registration and proficiency, governance, and examines the activities of, its member firms. Per CIRO’s rules, TPH Canada is required to maintain certain minimum capital, with additional capital requirements when TPH Canada participates in deal financings outside of its carrying broker relationship.
The company’s U.S. broker-dealer subsidiaries, like most other broker-dealers, have from time to time been the subject of requests for information and documents from the SEC, FINRA, and other regulators. The company has cooperated and complied in all material respects with any such requests for information and documents.
The Bank Secrecy Act (the ‘BSA’), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2021, and the Treasury Department's and FINRA's implementing regulations require the company, as a broker-dealer, to establish and maintain an anti-money laundering program, file suspicious activity and other reports, and comply with certain record-keeping requirements.
The company must also comply with the economic sanctions and embargo programs administered by the United Nations Security Council and certain governmental agencies outside the United States.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (‘FCPA’) prohibits the company from making or offering to make any payment, or giving anything of value, to a foreign official for the purpose of influencing that official to assist it in obtaining or retaining an improper business advantage. The UK Bribery Act prohibits the company from bribing, accepting bribes, or making other prohibited payments to government officials or other persons (i.e., within the public or private sector) in order to obtain or retain business or gain some other business advantage.