Perella Weinberg Partners

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company_name = Perella Weinberg Partners
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company_type = Private company
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foundation = 2006
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key_people = Joseph R. Perella
Peter Weinberg
industry = Investment banking
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homepage = [http://www.pwpartners.com Perella Weinberg Partners]

Perella Weinberg Partners L.P. is a boutique investment bank based in New York and London. It was founded in 2006 as a partnership by Wall Street legends Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg. The firm specializes in corporate advisory and investment management services.

History

Due to the heated management disputes at Morgan Stanley star bankers Joseph Perella (Vice-Chairman) and Tarek Abdel-Meguid (Head of Investment Banking) abruptly left the firm in November 2005. Perella and Abdel-Meguid then decided to create a new boutique advisory firm and quickly began to raid other top Wall Street banks for talent. In January 2006 the unnamed firm announced it would be bringing aboard Peter Weinberg, CEO of Goldman Sachs International (the bank's European arm). On June 15, 2006 Joseph Perella announced the official formation of Perella Weinberg Partners L.P. In addition, Perella indicated that the boutique had been able to secure over US $1 billion in seed capital from 11 investors including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Istithmar, Gulf Investments Corporation and eight family investor groups.

In November 2006 Perella Weinberg Partners announced the acquisition of Kramer Capital Partners, an investment banking firm based in Stamford, CT.

Partners

* Joseph R. Perella (Former Vice-Chairman at Morgan Stanley and Founding partner of Wasserstein Perella & Co.)
* Peter Weinberg (Former CEO of Goldman Sachs International)
* Tarek Abdel-Meguid (Former Global Head of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley)
* Andrew Bednar (Former Head of U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions at Banc of America Securities)
* Philip Yates (Former Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch)
* Ralph Pellecchio (Former general counsel for global institutional securities at Morgan Stanley)
* Paulo Pereira (Former Head of European Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley)
* William Kourakos (Former Global Head of Leveraged Finance at Morgan Stanley)
* Michael Kramer (Founder of Kramer Capital Partners and former Partner at Greenhill & Co. and Houlihan Lokey Howard Zukin)
* Derron Slonecker (Founder of Kramer Capital Partners and Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey Howard Zukin)
* Titus Leung
* Amr Nosseir
* Bernard Gault
* Dietrich Becker
* Julio Garcia
* Rod Parsley
* Leon Bressler (Former CEO of [http://www.unibail.fr Unibail] )
* Gary Barancik
* Lynn Perkins
* Susan Soh

External links

* [http://www.pwpartners.com Official Web Site]
* [http://www.pwpartners.com/news.htm Official Launch Press Release]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/business/14wall.html?ex=1294894800&en=f1f5d1870601e7ed&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Boutique Bank Lands Ex-Goldman Star]
* [http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/16062006/244/bringing-banking-future.html Bringing Banking Back to the Future]
* [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aQUcIBTSDtm8&refer=top_world_news Bloomberg:Perella Weinberg Raises More Than $1 Bln for Boutique]