Perella Weinberg Partners was launched on June 15, 2006, with offices in New York and London. To help establish the firm's operations and to seed investment initiatives, Perella Weinberg Partners raised over US$1.2 billion from a group of investors, including leading financial institutions and family investor groups from the Americas, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. During its first year of operation, Perella Weinberg Partners established an advisory council. Its members include Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute; Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and Ivan Seidenberg, former chief executive officer of Verizon Communications. In 2016, Perella Weinberg acquired the Houston-based energy investment banking firm Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. that at the time had "nearly $2 billion of energy assets". The 2016 acquisition increased Perella Weinberg's assets under management from $10 billion to $12 billion.
Business units
Perella Weinberg Partners has two business units: Corporate Advisory, providing services to decision makers in business and government, and Asset Management, which consists of investment vehicles catering to institutional investors.
Corporate Advisory
Corporate Advisory is divided into practices: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Restructuring, Private Capital Raising, Pension Advisory services, Special Committee Advisory services, Government Advisory services and Energy Advisory services. The Corporate Advisory Business provides independent advice and transaction execution, including mergers and acquisitions, exclusive sales, defense advisory, financial restructuring, and special committee advisory. The Corporate Advisory group focuses on advising public and private companies, global institutions and investors.
Asset Management
The global asset management business comprises a suite of alternative investment strategies as well as outsourced CIO services. Investments made through this business include most major asset classes on a global basis, including equities, fixed income, asset based investments, distressed securities, private investments, real estate, and energy investments. The firm counts pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and fund of funds as its clients, and, including affiliates, has capital commitments and managed assets of approximately $12.6 billion as of January 1, 2017. Perella Weinberg Partners' Agility Fund was named Outsourced CIO of the Year by Institutional Investor in 2015 and 2014 and by Foundation & Endowment Intelligence in 2013.
