Perella Weinberg Partners

Founded in June 2006 by Joseph Perella, Peter Weinberg, and Terry Meguid, Perella Weinberg Partners is an independent advisory firm headquartered in New York. It operates across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

The firm advises corporations, financial sponsors, governments, sovereign wealth funds, and institutions on strategic and financial decisions. Its services include M&A, shareholder engagement, restructuring and liability management, financing and capital solutions, capital markets, private funds advisory, private capital placement, underwriting, and energy-sector research.

For students, PWP is most relevant as a specialist investment-banking platform focused on complex, high-value advisory assignments rather than lending or broad-based commercial banking. Its model emphasizes experienced advisory professionals, relatively small teams, and exposure to transactions involving M&A, financial distress, recapitalization, and other major corporate decisions.