Houston energy investment banking firm Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. agreed to merge into a larger New York investment firm, Perella Weinberg Partners

Andrew Bednar has spent the past six years advising the world’s biggest stock exchanges on an unprecedented wave of consolidation that culminated in March, when he served as lead banker to Deutsche Börse Group on its planned $30 billion tie-up with the London Stock Exchange.

In 1790, just 5% of Americans lived in urban settlements. Our cities were coastal seaports, anchored in trade and commerce. Seeing the potential of New York’s harbor, leaders invested millions of public dollars to create the Erie Canal, casting the die for New York to become one of the world’s…

The season is starting for annual meetings, when shareholders have the chance to attend gatherings of companies in which they own stock to tell chief executives what’s on their mind. While years ago there were few investors publicly voicing their criticisms, a new kind of shareholder has emerged…

Perella Weinberg has closed its second pan-European fund with total equity commitments of more than €1.3 billion, making it the largest equity haul for a pan- European opportunistic real estate fund since Blackstone closed its Europe-focused fund in June 2009. New York’s Perella Weinberg Partners…

The funding keeps the lights on while Atari US hatches an escape plan. Following its recent bankruptcy filing, Atari US has closed $2 million in interim debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing, with another $3 million waiting for official documentation and approval. “The interim DIP financing…