Perella Weinberg Partners

Perella Weinberg Partners

Joseph R. Perella and Peter A. Weinberg founded the firm in 2007, bringing decades of experience from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. The New York-headquartered partnership was an explicit bet against the integrated bank model, focusing entirely on strategic advice without lending or capital-markets balance sheet risk. Both founders remain active, though day-to-day leadership now sits with CEO Andrew Bednar and President Dietrich Becker. Perella Weinberg concentrates on five practice areas: M&A advisory, growth capital and capital markets, restructuring and liability management, special committee assignments, and private funds advisory. Deal activity spans sectors including energy, healthcare, and technology. Confirmed mandates include lead financial advisor to BlackRock on its $12.5B acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners, exclusive advisor to Shockwave Medical on its $13.1B sale to Johnson & Johnson, and investment banker to the FTX Debtors in their chapter 11 cases. The firm operates from offices in New York, London, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, and other cities, deploying teams across North America and Europe. CEO Andrew Bednar and President Dietrich Becker lead a partnership group of roughly 120 partners and managing directors, with Peter Weinberg remaining as Chairman. The firm maintains no publicly disclosed AUM or proprietary investment pools. Its private funds advisory practice — focusing on GP-led secondaries, GP advisory, and fund secondaries — is its closest adjacency to actual asset management. In 2024, Perella Weinberg advised on at least four public transactions exceeding $8B, reinforcing its position as a top-tier independent deal shop. Perella Weinberg’s structural differentiator is its single-minded independence. By refusing to operate a lending desk or trading floor, the firm avoids the conflicts that arise when an advisor also competes with its clients for deal financing. That architecture has attracted a deep bench of senior-level partners. Its succession structure is also notable: Perella now serves as Chairman Emeritus, and the partnership rotates leadership through a broad group rather than anchoring the firm to one rainmaker.